Rania Dridi

Affiliated media: Al Jazeera, Journalist

Incident date: August 25, 2023

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg

Additional information:

On August 28, in Petrozavodsk, police detained a suspect in the attack on Al Jazeera journalist Rania Dridi. On the night of August 24-25, she was broadcasting in St. Petersburg to Al Jazeera's Arabic-language newsroom and was reporting on the situation near the spontaneous memorial to Yevgeny Prigozhin. A man burst into the frame, covered the journalist with his back, and demanded that she not speak in a foreign language. He punched the journalist in the right temple. As a result of the attack, she was diagnosed with a closed head injury. The program had to be interrupted. The detainee's name is Igor Berdov, he is 36 years old, a case of battery has been opened against him (Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).