Victor Agafonov

Affiliated media: Pskovskaya Gubernia, Journalist

Incident date: April 14, 2022

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: North.Realities

Location: Russia, Pskov Oblast, Pskov

Additional information:

Victor Agafonov, the journalist of Pskovskaya Gubernia, and his wife, Marina Agafonova, were detained in Pskov. During the day, Victor’s wife was summoned to the police on the pretext that she could download photos from her husband’s laptop seized during the search — Marina Agafonova works as a commercial photographer. At the police station, she was «handed over» to the officers of the Center for Combating Extremism, who talked to her for more than three hours.