Tatiana Voltskaya

Affiliated media: Radio Liberty , Correspondent

Incident date: December 15, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Kommersant

Location: Russia, Leningrad Oblast, Gatchinskiy district

Additional information:

The magistrate fined Tatiana Voltskaya 30 thousand rubles for spreading fake news (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code) for interviewing an anonymous resuscitator on April 11 about disconnecting people infected with COVID-19 from ventilators. Earlier, a check was conducted against the journalist to establish a criminal case. On April 21, 2021, the Gatchinskiy City Court of the Leningrad Oblast dismissed the case against Tatyana Voltskaya due to an article about the lack of ventilators.