Yana Toporkova

Affiliated media: Region Online , Journalist

Incident date: September 14, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Facebook page of lawyer Alexey Avetisyan

Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Tikhoretsk

Additional information:

Employees of the Center for Countering Extremism of Karachay-Cherkessia came to the old address of the journalist in order to conduct a search in a criminal case of the spread of fakes about the COVID-19 pandemic (article 207.1 of the Criminal Code). They did not find Toporkova as she is living in Krasnodar.