Elmaz Akimova

Affiliated media: Crimean Process, Correspondent

Incident date: October 28, 2021

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Crimean Process

Location: Republic of Crimea, Simferopol

Additional information:

During the court hearings in Simferopol to consider the investigator's petition to extend the preventive measure for Nariman Dzhelyalov, Asan, and Aziz Akhtemov, the building of the Kievsky District Court was cordoned off by police officers along the perimeter. Despite the applications submitted to the court for the presence at the sessions as a journalist, as well as the availability of a journalist ID, the reporter Elmaz Akimova was not allowed to go beyond the cordoned-off perimeter by the police officers.