Victoria Arefyeva

Affiliated media: Sota Vision, Correspondent

Incident date: April 2, 2022

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg

Additional information:

The correspondent of Sota Vision Victoria Arefyeva and the photojournalist of Zaks.ru Konstantin Lenkov were attacked while filming an anti-war rally near the 442nd military hospital. An activist chained herself to a fence next to a Ukrainian flag. A lieutenant colonel and cadets of the Mozhaysky Military Space Academy demanded that the journalists remove the flag and unhook the girl from the fence. The military officers threw Arefyeva and Lenkov to the ground, took away their personal belongings and returned them only after the police arrived. Arefyeva’s glasses and phone were broken in the scuffle.