Affiliated media: VGTRK, Cameraman

Incident date: July 21, 2017

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Pushkino

Additional information:

In Pushkino (Moscow Oblast), a camera crew from "Vesti" was attacked. The journalists were filming a report on an investigation into a car crash, in which the family of a priest was killed by a drunken police officer. They tried to talk to an official about the accident, but she punched the cameraman and locked herself in a nearby office.