Alexander Zavodchukov
Affiliated media: Blogger
Incident date: January 24, 2021
Attack type:
- Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Mediazona
Location: Russia, Voronezh Oblast, Voronezh
Additional information:
In Voronezh, a policeman attacked the correspondent of the Rosderzhava Alexey Shamardin and blogger Alexander Zavodchukov in building the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the correspondent, they were attacked by colonel Anatoly Redko. At the entrance to the building, Redko approached the reporter and started to say that Shamardin «does something wrong: he keeps his hand in his pocket and is not standing right». According to the journalist, when he asked the security officer to introduce himself, he hit the camera, knocked the equipment out of his hands, and then snatched the phone out of Zavodchukov's hands.