Vilen Temeryanov - Justice for Journalists

Vilen Temeryanov

Affiliated media: Crimean Solidarity, Civil Journalist

Incident date: November 24, 2021

Attack type:

  • Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: JFJ Expert

Location: Republic of Crimea, Simferopol

Additional information:

The journalist of Crimean Solidarity Vilen Temeryanov went to the Simferopol detention center to cover the meeting of religious activists with the lawyer Edem Semedlyaev, who was released from the detention center on that day. At the time of the meeting, the police detained him and 30 other people. On November 24, the judge of the Kievsky District Court of Simferopol Yevgeny Pronin found him guilty of an administrative offense under Article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation and arrested him for 14 days.

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