Alexander Chernykh

Affiliated media: Kommersant , Journalist

Incident date: July 7, 2020

Attack type:

Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences
Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Journalists from Kommersant Elena Chernenko, Kira Duryagina, Marianna Belenkaya, Alexander Chernykh and Kirill Krivosheev were detained by the police. They held solitary protests near the FSB headquarters in support of a former colleague Ivan Safronov, an advisor to Roscosmos (Russian space agency) who’s been detained on charges of treason. He was released from the police with an obligation to appear to draw up a protocol on violation of the procedure for holding a public event.