Vera Kholodnaya

Affiliated media: Free Media, Journalist

Incident date: December 20, 2017

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Krasnodar

Additional information:

In Krasnodar, at a monument to Dzerzhinsky, the police detained "Free Media" correspondent Vera Kholodnaya and the head of the local branch of "Open Russia" Jan Antonov. The activist stood with a poster and demanded the release of Krasnodar activist Viktor Chirikov. The girls were taken to the police station, had a preventive conversation with them and released without drawing up protocols.