Artur Asafyev - Justice for Journalists

Artur Asafyev

Affiliated media: Idel.Realities (Radio Svoboda project), Freelance correspondent

Incident date: April 22, 2022

Attack type:

  • Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Location: Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa

Additional information:

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included Asafyev in the register of «foreign agents». His colleagues from Radio Svoboda Yekaterina Lushnikova and Vladimir Voronov, as well as journalists Alexey Venediktov, Alexander Nevzorov, and Sergey Parkhomenko were declared «foreign agents» along with him.

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