Anastasia Nikolaeva - Justice for Journalists

Anastasia Nikolaeva

Affiliated media: Photographer

Incident date: February 27, 2022

Attack type:

  • Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel "OVD-Info"

Location: Russia, Rostov Oblast, Rostov

Additional information:

Kirovsky District Court of Rostov arrested photographer Anastasia Nikolaeva, who held an individual picket with a white sheet of paper in her hands on February 25 for eight days. «She stood at the corner of Kirovsky and Bolshaya Sadovaya for about half an hour with a white sheet of paper. Police officers drove up to her and studied the sheet of paper. One of them called someone and said there was nothing on the sheet. But they decided to detain her anyway», – a witness of Nikolaeva's detention told 161.RU. The court refused to see the video and question the witness of the detention, and found Nikolaeva guilty of disobedience to police officers.

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