Irina Gorbacheva

Affiliated media: Penza's First Portal, Editor

Incident date: October 11, 2017

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Penza Oblast, Penza

Additional information:

A incident took place in a journalist’s house in Zapadnaya Polyana. "A friend was taking me to home. There I was attacked by a man, with a sharpened object in his hand, who was clearly in a compromised condition. He may have been drunk. He put the object to my neck and ran it over my face," said Irina Gorbacheva. “My friend came to the scene when I shouted; he did not gone far. We held the assailant down. Then the police came and detained the man."