Bella Nasibyan

Affiliated media: RusNews, Journalist

Incident date: September 8, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Rostov Oblast, Rostov-on-Don

Additional information:

Journalists’ and activists’ apartments were searched in Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow, Voronezh, and the Moscow Region. At least some of them were conducted in a criminal case on «fakes» about the army against former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev. In Rostov-on-Don, the apartment of the journalist of RusNews Bella Nasibyan was searched. After the search, she was taken to an unknown destination, and nothing was known about her whereabouts for some time. Later, it turned out that Nasibyan was in the local police station. She is suspected of administering the Telegram channel Utro Fevralya. After questioning, Nasibyan was released. According to Bella, she discovered before the search that her bank accounts were blocked. During the search, Nasibyan’s personal phone, her mother’s phone, a computer hard drive, flash drives, SIM cards, a «Memorial» badge and a mug with the logo of the public human rights organization «Women of the Don» were seized.