Svetlana Timofeeva (Lana Sator)
Affiliated media: Photographer, Blogger
Incident date: August 25, 2022
Attack type:
- Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: The Insider
Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow
Additional information:
The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow decided to arrest Svetlana Timofeeva in absentia on the case of illegal obtaining of information related to state secrets. Timofeeva is known as the blogger Lana Sator, she takes pictures of abandoned buildings, bomb shelters, and military facilities for Instagram. In Russia, she is charged under Paragraph A of Part 2 of Article 283.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Timofeeva is currently under arrest in Albania. On August 20, The Insider reported that she was detained along with Russian citizen Mikhail Zorin and Ukrainian citizen Fyodor Alpatov. Zorin was taking pictures of the arms factory and, according to the Albanian Ministry of Defense, was trying to get into its territory. Two officers tried to prevent this, but a neuroparalytic spray was used against them.