Alexandra Runova - Justice for Journalists

Alexandra Runova

Affiliated media: RusNews, Correspondent

Incident date: December 4, 2020

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Khabarovsk Krai, Khabarovsk

Additional information:

Central District Court fined Runova RUB 15,000 under Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (participation in a public assembly creating an obstruction to traffic) in connection with the action of November 24. Runova was video broadcasting from the action on the editorial assignment. After the trial, the law enforcers wanted to detain her again under the pretext of participation in an unauthorized event on November 30, but due to her having underage children, she was released with the undertaking to appear.

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