Oleg Baturin - Justice for Journalists

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Oleg Baturin

Affiliated media: Newspaper "Nova Kakhovka", Journalist

Incident date: April 16, 2022

Attack type:

  • Pressure on a media worker via non-physical pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: от военных

Source: National Union of Journalists of Ukraine

Location: Ukraine, Kherson Oblast, Nova Kakhovka

Additional information:

Russian occupants started threatening the relatives of journalist Oleg Baturin who stayed in the occupied territories. They demand that Oleg stop his active journalistic activities, which he carries out in the Ukrainian-controlled territory. It should be noted that earlier, Baturin had been held captive by the occupants for eight days and had been subjected to pressure and torture. After his release, he decided to leave his occupied hometown and move to Ukrainian-controlled territory for security reasons.