Ksenia Klochkova

Affiliated media: fontanka.ru, Journalist

Incident date: August 12, 2017

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: The Moscow Times

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Additional information:

On the Field of Mars in the centre of St. Petersburg, LGBT activists held solitary pickets and protests. After the event, a group of participants and several journalists were attacked by hooligans. They sprayed pepper spray from canisters, and eyewitnesses managed to film it. Among the victims was a camera crew from the TV channel "Nastoyashchoye Vremya” (Current Time), a reporter for popular urban media project "Fontanka" Ksenia Klochkova and photographer David Frenkel.