Alexander Pelevin - Justice for Journalists

Alexander Pelevin

Affiliated media: Glavnye Sobytiya, Journalist

Incident date: August 22, 2022

Attack type:

  • Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The journalist of the newspaper Glavnye Sobytiya Alexander Pelevin was detained in Moscow with the help of facial recognition cameras. He was detained when he was returning from an action in memory of the journalist Darya Dugina. Pelevin was released from the Kitay-gorod police station without a report.

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