The Sovetsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk sentenced NGS24 journalist Evgenia Shelkovnikova to three years of forced labor in the case o use of harmless violence against a representative of authority. The publication itself reports this.
September 22, 2022 — the first day after the announcement of mobilization in Russia — Shelkovnikova took comments from people who came to the military registration and enlistment office of the Sovetsky and Central districts of Krasnoyarsk. Military Commissar Viktor Nechiporenko demanded that she go with him. According to the journalist, he began to grab her by the arms and “drag her into the closed part of the military registration and enlistment office.”
“I somehow escaped, took out my phone and turned on the camera to somehow protect myself. This man started beating me in a boorish manner, hit me several times and knocked the phone out of my hands, then called the employees for help,” Shelkovnikova said.
After this, Nechiporenko, as NGS24 writes, demanded that the hall doors be blocked so as not to let the journalist out, called the police and wrote a statement of attack against her. In court, the military commissar said that he did not knock the phone out of Shelkovnikova’s hands.
After the incident, the journalist was diagnosed with several bruises, and Nechiporenko showed law enforcement officers an abrasion on his temple. Shelkovnikova did not admit guilt.
NGS24 editor-in-chief Kadriya Katsina called the behavior of the military commissar and the trial of her employee obstruction of journalistic activity. “Zhenya had bruises, it’s hard to imagine what she had to go through. And now it's her fault? The fact that you didn’t allow yourself to be beaten? Was it that she was doing her job as a journalist?” — Katsina commented on the verdict.