Darya Kucherenko

Affiliated media: Kommersant-Ufa, Journalist

Incident date: April 12, 2022

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Activatica

Location: Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa

Additional information:

Journalist Darya Kucherenko was charged with «discrediting» the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation) for picketing with an anti-war poster. Around 8 PM, she came out to the central market with the poster «War is rape and murder of Ukrainian women and Ukrainians. War is poverty and repression in Russia». Twenty minutes later, she was detained and taken to a police department, from where she was released without a report. At night, she was met by two men in plain clothes outside her apartment. «They kept saying that I am the violator, ’what were you hoping for?’, ’people are fighting over there, and you’re standing here with posters’, ’history should have been taught at school’, ’there is a law, you must obey it’», — writes Kucherenko.