Yuri Zhitlukhin

Affiliated media: Independent journalist, politician

Incident date: October 18, 2019

Attack type:

• Punitive psychiatry not resulting in death

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Zabaykalsky Krai, Krasnokamensk

Additional information:

In Krasnokamensk (Zabaykalsky Krai), people in white robes kidnapped the journalist and politician Yuri Zhitlukhin – he spent four days in captivity, being tortured and abused. He suspects that the "nurses" were fulfilling a political order.