Zorro from Crimea - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Zorro from Crimea, Telegram channel

Incident date: November 24, 2020

Attack type:

Breaking into email / social media accounts / computer / smartphone

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Republic of Crimea, Crimea

Additional information:

On November 24, after a three-week break, a message appeared in the Zorro from Crimea Telegram channel stating that they had been «declassified, identified and disciplined» and that all correspondence with information sources had been «registered». After that, the channel stopped publishing updates.

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