Aleksey Mazur

Affiliated media: Tayga.info, Journalist

Incident date: January 29, 2021

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Tayga.info

Location: Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Novosibirsk

Additional information:

The Prosecutor’s Office employees came to the Tayga.info journalist Aleksey Mazur at the demand of the Federal Security Service because of a mass protest planned for January 31 in Novosibirsk. The law enforcement officers declared him the «organizer» of the event, which, according to his editorial assignment, he was to cover. The deputy city prosecutor’s assistant Igor Stasiulis handed Mazur a «warning about the inadmissibility of violating the law».