Deniz Ruzavin

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: October 7, 2022

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Primorsky Krai, Bolshoy Kamen

Additional information:

The apartments of the wife and parents of journalist and activist Denis Ruzavin were searched in Bolshoy Kamen, Primorsky Krai. Law enforcers told the activist’s father that they were looking for Ruzavin’s laptop because of his publications on the Internet. Ruzavin’s wife was told that the reason for the search was the «fakes» about the war in Ukraine, which the journalist allegedly spreads. They were looking for «journalistic equipment» in her apartment.