Nika Gavrilyeva

Affiliated media: News.Ykt.ru, Journalist

Incident date: November 7, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Telegram channel Media Ombudsman

Location: Russia, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk

Additional information:

The guards of the steam cocktail centre forcibly pushed the journalist out of the building. She was filming a raid by city hall officials, police and Rosgvardia officers, who were checking compliance with anti-COVID measures. One of the guards grabbed the journalist's phone, which was recording the video, and stopped filming, and instructed other men present at the entrance to forcibly remove the journalist.