Anastasia Voloshina - Justice for Journalists

Anastasia Voloshina

Affiliated media: Avtozak LIVE", Journalist

Incident date: March 6, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel "Avtozak LIVE"

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Additional information:

Avtozak LIVE journalist Anastasia Voloshina was detained on March 6 on her way to the anti-war rally. She spent the night at the police station, where she was charged under Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. On March 7, Voloshina was taken to the Vyborg Court in St. Petersburg, where the judge decided to take neither her editorial ID card nor the correspondent's editorial assignment into account and fined Anastasia RUB 10,000.

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