Anastasia Antochanu

Affiliated media: Agora.md, Journalist

Incident date: October 21, 2018

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Media Azi

Location: Moldova, Chisinau

Additional information:

A journalist from www.agora.md portal approached Prime Minister Pavel Filip, Speaker of the Parliament Adrian Candu, and Vlad Plahotniuc, the PDM leader, to ask a couple of questions about a rally. The journalist has been ‘pulled away’ by the Acting Director of the State Protection and Guard Service, Anatolie Golea, and other security officers, including some of the PD team, who prevented her from asking questions and pushed her away unreasonably, saying only that they were ‘necessary security measures’. Officials and the leader of the party saw this happening and were smiling.