Affiliated media: The Crimean Human Rights Group, The website of the human rights organisation

Incident date: July 12, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Crimean Human Rights Group

Location: Republic of Crimea, Simferopol

Additional information:

On July 12, 2021, it became known that access to the website of the human rights organization Crimean Human Rights Group on the territory of Crimea was blocked. According to the CHRG, in 2020 and 2021, there were at least 20 decisions prohibiting the articles of the Crimean Human Rights Group for «distribution on the territory of the Russian Federation». According to the media coordinator of the CHRG Irina Sedova, Roskomnadzor decided to block the entire information resource.