Vladimir Thorik

Affiliated media: RISE Moldova, Journalist

Incident date: February 9, 2021

Attack type:

• Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: RISE Moldova Facebook page

Location: Moldova, Chisinau

Additional information:

Four deputies of the ruling Party of Socialists (Parliament's vice-chair President Vlad Batrîncea, and deputies Nichita Țurcan, Gaik Vartanean, Vladimir Odnostalco) filed complaints to the General Prosecutor's Office on RISE Moldova and authors of the journalistic investigation "Eight Friends of Dodon" about a secret group of Russian political strategists who came to Moldova. Deputies are asking to initiate the criminal case against journalists for "illegal surveillance, filming and wiretapping of deputies, thereby violating the deputies' right to privacy".