Natalia Petrova - Justice for Journalists

Natalia Petrova

Affiliated media: 7х7, Journalist

Incident date: July 13, 2020

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: 7х7

Location: Russia, Mari El Republic, Yoshkar-Ola

Additional information:

A local policeman came to Petrova’s home regarding her article of June 3. The publication stated that a list of students demonstrating against the vote on the Constitutional amendments was being drawn up at the Mari State University. The record of Mari State University appealed to the prosecutor with a statement on “deliberately false information”.

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