Roman Kupriyanov (Foma Neverov)

Affiliated media: Abazhur, Editor

Incident date: February 20, 2021

Attack type:

• Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Kemerovo Oblast, Kemerovo

Additional information:

Law enforcement officers searched the flat of the mother of Abazhur editor Roman Kupriyanov, who wrote under the pseudonym «Foma Neverov», and took him away for interrogation. The search lasted three hours, after which the law enforcers took away the journalist’s hard discs. The journalist wrote on Facebook after his release that during the search, the officer «flew into the balcony doo», «threw him on the floor», «held his head with his foot», and shouted: «Did you post videos about the governor? Who is the customer?». According to Kupriyanov, the Ministry of Internal Affairs Department of the Kemerovo Region opened a case on the publication of the video for unlawful obtaining of information from the regional administration’s computers (Article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).