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.