Yulia Polukhina

Affiliated media: Novaya Gazeta, Special correspondent

Incident date: December 26, 2019

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Lenizdat.ru

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Yulia Polukhina, a special correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, was searched by officials from the Investigative Committee and Special Rapid Response Unit troops. Polukhina was interrogated for several hours, and later released. The Investigative Committee stated that the search and interrogation were carried out as part of a criminal case on the organisation of a criminal community, theft, banditry and robbery.