Irina Babloyan - Justice for Journalists

Irina Babloyan

Affiliated media: Echo of Moscow, Journalist

Incident date: July 4, 2022

Attack type:

  • Wiretapping / surveillance without a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Irina Babloyan's Telegram channel

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Former journalist of Echo of Moscow Irina Babloyan reported that she was met on her way out of her home by uniformed security forces officers, who greeted her and called her by her first name and patronymic name. Earlier, the same law enforcers had demanded that she give her a phone number for the «check» and advised her to «talk less to extremists». Babloyan suggests that she is being pressured by the officers of the Centre for Combating Extremism.

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