Mikhail Dneprovsky

Affiliated media: Antifascist, Journalist

Incident date: April 3, 2021

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: YouTube channel of Mikhail Dneprovsky

Location: Republic of Crimea, Lenino village

Additional information:

Employees of Leninsk Central District Hospital obstructed the work of Mikhail Dneprovsky, a correspondent of the Antifascist website. They tried to take cell phones away from women who were taking pictures of the unloading operations. The incident took place at night when employees of the district hospital were unloading unaccounted medicines to get them out of the hospital. Dneprovsky and several activists were filming it, while the hospital employees, including the chief medical officer, provoked them into a conflict, threatened them with the police, tried to take the cell phone from one of the women, and blocked the picture.