Valentina Hofenberg

Affiliated media: TochkaNews, Deputy Editor, PR

Incident date: April 26, 2018

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: URA.RU

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

On April 26, officers from the criminal investigation department of the Russian Interior Ministry in Sverdlovsk Oblast, the regional offices of the Investigative Committee, and the FSB conducted a search of an apartment belonging to the parents of Valentina Hofenberg, the deputy editor of online publication “TochkaNews”, as well as her sister, who lives next door. The searches were carried out as part of a criminal libel case.