Affiliated media: Fronde TV, Camera crew

Incident date: December 18, 2017

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

A camera crew for the programme “Nastuplenie na nasledie” was attacked in Yekaterinburg. Two unidentified men, who presented themselves as employees of a security company, approached the journalists. They refused them entry to a an area, and in trying to hide work behind the fence, they knocked the cameraman to the ground.