Dmitry Bairov

Affiliated media: Journalist, Blogger

Incident date: January 28, 2021

Attack type:

• Abduction, taking captive / hostage, illegal deprivation of liberty

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Sibir.Realii

Location: Russia, Republic of Buryatia, Ulan-Ude

Additional information:

About seven plain-clothed people attacked Bairov near his house on January 28. An unknown car was standing under the blogger's windows all night, and when he got out, his wife said, «he was surrounded by five cars – plain-clothed people ran out of them, knocked Dima to the ground, grabbed him and dragged him into one of the cars. It all happened very quickly». During the detention, Dmitry’s arm was also injured.