Aleksey Shkola

Affiliated media: 66.ru, Photographer

Incident date: January 23, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: 66.ru

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

During the arrest at the protest on January 23, Shkola was hit with a truncheon and handcuffed. At the police station, his phone was taken away. Later, the photographer was given 30 hours of compulsory community service under the «protest-related» article, although he was covering the protest as a journalist by the request of the editorial board.