Ilya Beglenok - Justice for Journalists

Ilya Beglenok

Affiliated media: Megapolis TV channel, Cameraman

Incident date: February 15, 2020

Attack type:

  • Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: ugra-news.ru

Location: Russia, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Nizhnevartovsk

Additional information:

The head of the Navigator travel agency Ruslan Ivashko attacked the cameraman of the Megapolis TV channel Ilya Beglenok. The camera crew came to the travel agency's office to shoot a story about the Nizhnevartovsk citizens who bought tickets to Thailand and ended up in prison there. The cameraman was filming the signboard of the travel agency when the director ran out to him and began to snatch the camera. The attacker began to strangle the journalist and then took the camera and pulled a memory card with the filmed material out of it.

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