Affiliated media: RIA Verkhnevolzhye, Camera crew

Incident date: February 27, 2019

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Tver Oblast, Tver

Additional information:

In Tver, a group of journalists had received reports of mistreatment of animals in the Monkey Parade exhibition in the Babylon shopping centre. When a journalist came to film a report, a security guard tried to snatch his phone, pushed him onto a tiger’s cage and tried to strangle him. When the rest of the camera crew arrived later, they had their camera broken and were refused entry into the building.