Yegor Portnyagin

Affiliated media: Kamchatskuy Raion, Chief Editor

Incident date: December 27, 2017

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Argumenty i Fakty

Location: Russia, Kamchatka Krai, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Additional information:

A court upheld the sentence against Yegor Portnyagin, a 24-year-old public figure and editor-in-chief of the “Kamchatkskiy Raion” news agency. In 2016, the court found Portnyagin guilty of extortion and sentenced him to eighteen months in prison.