Nikita Mogutin - Justice for Journalists

Nikita Mogutin

Affiliated media: Baza, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: August 21, 2020

Attack type:

  • Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Telegram-channel "Mogutin"

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Nikita Mogutin said in his Telegram channel that unknown people were looking for him. «So, people unknown to me are looking for me. Today, three men came to my house and claimed that they needed me «for a personal matter». I was not at home. They told the security that I allegedly cheated them out of money and set them up. They showed them a picture of me, apparently taken from VKontakte social network», – said Mogutin.

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