Lev Gyammer - Justice for Journalists

Lev Gyammer

Affiliated media: Skat media, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: October 21, 2022

Attack type:

  • Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Lev Gyammer's Twitter account

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The editor-in-chief of Skat media reported that anonymous people were writing threatening letters to him and his friends and colleagues. The authors of the threats referred to Gyammer's mother, who tragically died in 2019. Recently, the attackers began texting from accounts with her name and photo as an avatar. Previously, Gyammer's classmates and old friends had been texted that he would allegedly be deported from Georgia. Gyammer assumed that the threats were written by police officers or people from the Novokuznetsk or Kemerovo region administrations.

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