Newsru.com - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Newsru.com, News website

Incident date: October 11, 2022

Attack type:

request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

At the demand of Rospotrebnadzor, a news story on Newsru.com from 2019 about a knife attack at a bus stop in Japan that killed two people, including a child, and injured 16 others, has been blocked. The news story says the attacker killed himself.

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