Aksana Panova - Justice for Journalists

Aksana Panova

Affiliated media: Znak.com, Director

Incident date: April 4, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Ura.ru

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

Znak.com director Aksana Panova, according to Ura.ru, was summoned to the prosecutor’s office before the media announced a shutdown on March 4. «The prosecutor’s office conducted a check on Znak.com, and Panova was summoned for questioning. It was after that that the editorial office issued a statement that it was temporarily shutting down», — the insider said. The press service of the Sverdlovsk prosecutor’s office told the reporter that they had no information on the subject.

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