Olesya Kokina

Affiliated media: Activatica.org, Correspondent

Incident date: February 3, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Journalists' Facebook page

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Additional information:

Activatica.org journalist Olesya Kokina was detained at night. «She saw how the police grab a guy from the street who was standing and smoking aside, she filmed it. One of the police officers pushed her at that time, she asked him to be careful, then he took her by the elbow and, without introducing himself, took her to the paddy wagon. She was put to the paddy wagon together with a guy she was filming. Then they were transferred to a bus where were already 50 people and took them to the police departments. Olesya spent the night at the police station. The protocol stated that Kokina intentionally contaminated people. It also stated that the "information about the detected infringement had been brought to the participants".