Событие Sergei Petrukhin - Justice for Journalists

Sergei Petrukhin

Affiliated media: YouTube channel "Narodnyy reporter" (People's Reporter), Blogger

Incident date: June 12, 2019

Attack type:

  • Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Brest

Additional information:

The court fined Sergei Petrukhin for "petty hooliganism" based on a complaint from the deputy head of the Leninsky district of Brest. The reason is that the blogger "in an annoying manner" asked the policeman to accept the statement about the administrative violation.

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