Affiliated media: Journalists and bloggers

Incident date: February 15, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Crimea.Realities

Location: Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol

Additional information:

Bailiffs of the Gagarinsky District Court did not let public activists and independent journalists and bloggers to the session on the lawsuit of Elena Morozova, director of the Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, against the local blogger and filmmaker Andrey Maslov. Bailiffs explained that they received a list of several journalists of local TV channels, «who can be allowed into the courtroom». Bailiffs refused to show the list. According to the head of bailiffs, the judge issued a «verbal resolution» on the admission of selected representatives of several local media.