Gulnaz Ravilova

Affiliated media: Newspaper of the Tatarstan branch of the Yabloko party, Correspondent, Activist

Incident date: August 3, 2020

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Idel.Realii

Location: Russia, Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan

Additional information:

Privolzhsky District Court arrested Ravilova for 5 days under Part 1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (violation of the procedure for holding an event). She was forcibly taken to the police department, from where a court hearing was held via video broadcast. Ravilova was diagnosed with COVID-19 after her previous arrest, and her two-week isolation period expired on July 4. On May 15, Ravilova, as a correspondent for the party newspaper, was filming an individual picket held by the head of the Yabloko regional department, Ruslan Zinatullin. The court considered this as an unauthorised mass event.