Andrey Soldatov - Justice for Journalists

Andrey Soldatov

Affiliated media: Agentura.ru, Founder

Incident date: June 9, 2022

Attack type:

  • Arrest of bank account/ property

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Meduza

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Journalist Andrey Soldatov reported that a criminal case has been opened against him. «Monday started splendid: all my accounts in Russian banks are arrested, plus I found myself in the search database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The case was opened on March 17, 2022, and is allegedly being handled by the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee», — he wrote on social media. It later became known that the criminal case was opened under the «fakes» article.

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