Nikolai Pakholnitski - Justice for Journalists

Nikolai Pakholnitski

Affiliated media: Newsmaker.md, Journalist

Incident date: March 2, 2020

Attack type:

  • Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Association of Independent Press of Moldovac

Location: Moldova, Chisinau

Additional information:

One of the protests attempted to grab a phone from the hands of journalist Nikolai Pakholnitski, while he was covering the protest live. The protester was outraged by the fact that Pakholnitski asked him a question in Russian, not Romanian.

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