Yana Sakhipova - Justice for Journalists

Yana Sakhipova

Affiliated media: OVD-Info , Chief editor

Incident date: June 22, 2020

Attack type:

  • Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Lenizdat.ru

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Additional information:

On June 22, in St. Petersburg in the building of the 1st Western District Military Court, the sentence was read out for the suspects in the “Network” case. After the sentences were publicized, the police began to detain those who came to support the accused. Among those detained was Yana Sakhipova, editor-in-chief of OVD-Info (a police monitoring group). She was taken to the 78th Police Precinct.

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