Affiliated media: Pervy Sevastopolsky TV channel , Camera crew

Incident date: May 14, 2021

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: ForPost

Location: Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol

Additional information:

The camera crew of the Pervy Sevastopolsky TV channel was not allowed into the open meeting held in the Gagarinsky District Court of Sevastopol to consider the new lawsuit of Elena Morozova, director of the Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, on the protection of honor, dignity, and business reputation against the filmmaker and blogger Andrey Maslov. The guards asked the correspondents to leave the building, arguing that the judge was against the presence of the press.