Alexey Venediktov - Justice for Journalists

Alexey Venediktov

Affiliated media: Echo of Moscow, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: March 24, 2022

Attack type:

  • Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Meduza

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

An unknown person in the uniform of a delivery man planted a pig’s head with a wig at Venediktov’s apartment. By the door, the journalist found a sticker with the coat of arms of Ukraine and the inscription Judensau. «They decided to intimidate me and my family? Me, whom Dudayev’s fighters took to be shot?», — Venediktov wrote on his Telegram channel. He filed a complaint with the police.

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