Vyacheslav Korshunov

Affiliated media: SOTA, Journalist

Incident date: March 27, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: SOTA

Location: Russia, Bryansk Oblast, Bryansk

Additional information:

The mother of SOTA journalist Vyacheslav Korshunov, who lives in Bryansk, was visited by police in the morning at the flat where he is registered and started banging on the door. The operative asked where Korshunov was and what his phone number was. The law enforcers made threats, saying that «it will get worse» and that «he must answer for the past». In the afternoon, the police paid another visit, officer Sergey Solovyanov told the journalist’s mother that a certain girl had filed a complaint against Korshunov for the defacement of her phone for RUB 50,000.