Affiliated media: Autopatrol program, Journalist

Incident date: December 2, 2020

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Primorsky Krai, Vladivostok

Additional information:

In Vladivostok, the Autopatrol program camera crew arrived at the scene of an accident where two cars had collided. The driver and passenger of one of the cars met them with hostility. An unidentified man was obstructing the filming process: he was rude, threatened to smash the camera and knock out the journalist and cameraman. Later, the young man attacked the journalist, snatched the work phone out of her hands, and ran across the road with it.