Yevgeny Sautin

Affiliated media: Dovod, Journalist

Incident date: March 5, 2022

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Dovod

Location: Russia, Vladimir Oblast, Vladimir

Additional information:

The apartment of the 17-year-old employee of Dovod Yevgeny Sautin was searched in the vandalism case (Sautin is a witness in the case). According to the law enforcers, the reason was that Dovod was the first to publish a picture of graffiti on its website. Police officers seized smartphones, laptops, computers, as well as other equipment, data carriers, and documents in the flats of journalists and activists on the basis of the ruling of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Vladimir, which, according to law enforcement officers, can be related to the criminal case. On April 12, Sautin left Russia.