Anastasia Shtelvag

Affiliated media: RusNews, Journalist

Incident date: December 28, 2023

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: RusNews

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The correspondent of RusNews Anastasia Shtelvag, along with other journalists and activists, was detained outside Tverskoy court after the verdict on the Mayakovsky case was announced. Shtelvag was later released from the detention centre. She was then detained again outside the police station, where several detainees were taken. The law enforcers approached the car of the editor-in-chief of RusNews Sergey Ainbinder, where Shtelvag was, threatened to break down the door, and took the journalist to the police station without giving any reason for the detention.