Gaspar Avakyan

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: May 1, 2020

Attack type:

• Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison
• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Kommersant

Location: Russia, Rostov Oblast, Rostov-on-Don

Additional information:

A regional court put Avakyan under arrest for seven days for the charge of disrespecting a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Russian Criminal Code) – the blogger refused to come down to the station. As the defence noted, quarantine measures mean that appealing the arrest can only be done retroactively. Avakyan is a suspect in a criminal case about extortion, and he was assigned preventive measures that ban certain actions.