Alexey Shamardin

Affiliated media: Rosderzhava, Journalist

Incident date: December 24, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Voronezh Oblast, Voronezh

Additional information:

A police officer attacked Alexey Shamardin, the journalist of the Rosderzhava news website, and the blogger Alexander Zavodchukov in the premises of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Voronezh region. He knocked the camera out of the journalist's hands and took the phone from the blogger. The police took the equipment and refused to return it.