Dmitry Fomintsev

Affiliated media: TochkaNews, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: April 26, 2018

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

Four people, presenting themselves as criminal investigators, broke into the apartment of TochkaNews editor-in-chief Dmitry Fomintsev. "They had no reason to enter the apartment, but they threatened that they break off my doors”, Fomintsev told colleagues. They offered to drive him to his editorial office. “I asked if they had any charges or a search warrant against me as the editor-in-chief of a news agency. They said no."