Yekaterina Ivanova - Justice for Journalists

Yekaterina Ivanova

Affiliated media: MSK1.ru, Journalist

Incident date: October 14, 2022

Attack type:

  • Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: MSK1.ru

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

MSK1.ru correspondent Yekaterina Ivanova was detained near the Pervomayskaya metro station in Moscow. She went to this metro station to check the information that military enlistment summonses were being handed out there. Near the station, she noticed two policemen and a lot of people in civilian clothes, next to whom there were blank forms of summons on a bench. The journalist took a picture of the people, they approached her and began asking why she did it. One of them said he was a military commissar and would file a complaint against her. They took away Ivanova's passport and took her to the Izmailovo district police station. There, Ivanova was photographed and released an hour after her detention.

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