Victoria Arefyeva

Affiliated media: Sota, Photo correspondent

Incident date: September 26, 2022

Attack type:

• Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel Sota

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg

Additional information:

In St. Petersburg, the apartments of the Sota journalist Victoria Arefyeva and 10 other people were searched in a criminal case on «telephone terrorism» (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The equipment was confiscated from the journalist. Arefyeva was interrogated at the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscovsky District of St. Petersburg, placed in a temporary detention center for 48 hours, and then released after signing along with her lawyer a non-disclosure undertaking on the data of the preliminary investigation.