Tom Vennink

Affiliated media: de Volkskrant, Journalist

Incident date: November 4, 2021

Attack type:

• Ban on entering the country, denial or revocation of a visa / accreditation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Guardian

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Russia revoked the residence permit of Tom Vennink, the correspondent of the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant in Moscow, and banned him from entering the country until 2025. The journalist left for the Netherlands. The reason for the expulsion of the journalist were two administrative violations: in November 2019, he was fined for failure to timely report a change of residence, and in January 2020, the journalist received a fine for an unauthorized visit to Chukotka.