Ksenia Sobchak - Justice for Journalists

Ksenia Sobchak

Affiliated media: YouTube channel 'Ostorozhno Sobchak' , Journalist, TV host

Incident date: June 27, 2020

Attack type:

  • Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Meduza

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Sredneuralsk

Additional information:

Ksenia Sobchak and her film crew were attacked in the Sredneuralsk Women's Convent while shooting a video for a story about the Schema-Hegumen Sergii. Sobchak herself was pushed, and she fell. Documentary filmmaker Sergey Yerzhenkov was beaten, and his arm was dislocated. Sobchak claims that their camera was also taken away, and the filmed materials were deleted.

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