Babr24.com - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Babr24.com, News website

Incident date: December 29, 2020

Attack type:

Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Irkutsk Oblast, Irkutsk

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor sent a notice to the Irkutsk-based news outlet Babr demanding to remove the news story of 2006 with the headline «Alexander Khinstein was running around the hotel in his underpants and was breaking windows».

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