Oleg Elanchik

Affiliated media: Sota. Vision, Journalist

Incident date: July 10, 2019

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Reutov

Additional information:

Several people were beaten and detained in a court in Reutov (Moscow Oblast) before the start of a hearing on the case of Yevgeny Kurakin. They had tried to enter the court hearing. Masked and unmarked people left the courtroom and began beating the visitors in the corridor with truncheons. Oleg Elanchik, a journalist for Sota Vision who wore a press card on his chest, was floored, beaten and dragged to another room in the court. He was later released.