Alexey Korostelev

Affiliated media: TV Rain , Journalist

Incident date: January 23, 2021

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Reporters Without Borders

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Police officers came to the flat near Pushkinskaya Square where the employees of the TV Rain were. They turned off the electricity and climbed onto the roof of the building. The correspondent's passport was seized, and he was told that he would be taken to the police department for an ID check. Later, Korostelev was drawn up a report on willful damage of a citizen's identification card (Article 19.16 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation).