Maxim Stepanov

Affiliated media: Procherk, Journalist

Incident date: July 17, 2021

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: National Union of Journalists of Ukraine

Location: Ukraine, Cherkasy Oblast, Cherkasy

Additional information:

A security representative of one of the agro-companies interfered with the journalist's work. He knocked the cell phone out of the journalist's hands while another man picked up the phone and deleted all the photos and videos he had taken (later, specialists managed to recover the destroyed files). All this happened even though Stepanov said he was a journalist. Moreover, the guards said they forbid the journalist to take pictures, and in case of disobedience, they would take away his cell phone.