Maria Ponomarenko

Affiliated media: RusNews, Journalist

Incident date: June 21, 2021

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Siberia.Realities

Location: Russia, Altai krai, Barnaul

Additional information:

The Barnaul-based correspondent of RusNews Maria Ponomarenko was fined RUB 75,000 for her post. On June 17, police detained Ponomarenko after a rally against the city's general plan and took her to the police station. She was covering the action as a journalist. The journalist was charged under the administrative article on repeated violation of the rules of public events (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation).