Yulia Litvinenko

Affiliated media: URA.Ru, Journalist

Incident date: February 14, 2017

Attack type:

• Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

A former Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov initiated a criminal case against a journalist from "URA.RU." The reason for this unprecedented pressure was an article that saved a factory in the Urals from corporate raiding and the former Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov.