Nikolay Gorelov - Justice for Journalists

Nikolay Gorelov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: February 10, 2020

Attack type:

  • Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast, Kaliningrad

Additional information:

The search was conducted in the flat of blogger Nikolay Gorelov in connection with the criminal case about "insulting military fame and commemorative dates of Russia". Gorelov is being chased for a satirical text about World War II. "The search was just conducted in our apartment. The phone, the hard drive, the router and the charger were confiscated. The gag order was taken from Nikolay». Nikolay and his wife had to let in the investigators under threats to break the door.

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