Vitaly Shahnazarov

Affiliated media: Shelekhov News, Online channel director

Incident date: March 31, 2018

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Irkutsk Oblast, Shelekhov

Additional information:

Shahnazarov: "It was March 31, at about 22:30. Near the entrance to my house, while I was looking for my keys, two men ran up from behind. They knocked me down, took away my phone, and emptied my pockets. They took away my passport for some reason, with my SNILS [social security card] inside. They through the money back. I heard the words “Beat up the deformed journo” while they were kicking my head”. He lost consciousness – when he woke up, he called the police, and sat in the station till six in the morning.