Affiliated media: TatPolit , YouTube channel and news website

Incident date: March 20, 2020

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan

Additional information:

The court in Tatarstan, on demand of the case officer of the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dmitry Marfin asked to remove several video interview in which Marfin was accused of torture. The defendants - two human rights activists, the editor-in-chief of the TatPolit website Ruslan Aisin and the journalist of Sirazhi Suze, Iskander Siraziev - were charged 10 thousand rubles (111 GBP) each. Marfin believes that Shakirova (her brother Sergei Grigoriev reported the torture) and Butashnova (her husband also announced pressure from the side of Marfin)slandered him in an interview to TatPolit.