Alyona Lakomkina - Justice for Journalists

Alyona Lakomkina

Affiliated media: Telegram channel Close Tver Behind Me, Editor

Incident date: November 1, 2022

Attack type:

  • Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel Close Tver Behind Me

Location: Russia, Tver Oblast, Tver

Additional information:

Tver-based activist Alyona Lakomkina left Russia. Lakomkina is one of the editors of the Telegram channel Close Tver Behind Me. In May, she and two other activists were searched in the case of spreading «military fakes» (Paragraph E of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

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