Affiliated media: Sib.fm, Online media

Incident date: September 16, 2022

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Sib.fm

Location: Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Novosibirsk

Additional information:

In Novosibirsk, journalists were not allowed to attend the session of the Tsentralny District Court, where a member of the regional legislature and general director of the construction company Energomontazh LLC Ivan Sidorenko, suspected of fraud, was to be imposed a measure of restraint, the Sib.fm newspaper reported. The bailiffs referred to the court chairman’s order of April 25 to restrict access to the court to citizens who are not parties to the proceedings.