Timur Khanov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: September 4, 2018

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Novosibirsk

Additional information:

In the centre of Novosibirsk, a blogger who had conducted a survey about the attitude of local residents to protests was beaten. The blogger began to film obscene inscriptions on murals located directly opposite the windows of the city authorities on his phone. At this point, he was approached by a man who called himself "Demin Alexey Alexandrovich, assistant to an MP of the Legislative Assembly". The man tried to take the blogger’s phone, and then punched him several times in the face.