Sergey Veselovsky - Justice for Journalists

Sergey Veselovsky

Affiliated media: YouTube channel «Smersh. Crimean Front» , Blogger

Incident date: December 1, 2021

Attack type:

  • Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Telegram channel «Veselovsky»

Location: Republic of Crimea, Simferopol

Additional information:

Pro-Russian blogger Sergey Veselovsky turned to the police after he was attacked by a cooperative security guard, who hit him several times with a rubber truncheon. According to Veselovsky, the attack was due to the fact that he, as a journalist, published screenshots of the guard's pro-Ukrainian comments in social networks

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