human rights defender
Aleksander Dorogov
Actions and Campaigns
Aleksander Dorogov
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Organization affiliation
- Rosderzhava
HRD's year of birth
1976
HRD's Gender
Man
Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Fight against corruption
HRD's geographical origin
Semi urban
Current Status
In prison (sentenced)
HRD's bio and work
Alexander Dorogov is a blogger and journalist for the online media outlet ‘Rosderzhava’. He has five children, including three minors.
Together with Jan Katelewski, he published his materials criticising the authorities and journalistic investigations of corruption, criminality and police misconduct.
The last published investigation by journalists was devoted to the raiding of the funeral business in the Moscow region and the possible covering up of this by the Moscow region police. In 2018, the bloggers demanded that expired products be removed from sale in a shop; as a result, they were taken to a Moscow police station and Dorogov's arm was injured after an altercation with the head of the department.
The bulk of the accusations are related to the figure of Gorokhov, a traffic police inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Moscow region. Since 2019, he and his fellow officers have become regular heroes of Dorogov's and Katelevsky's videos. Over time, Gorokhov attracted the attention of fellow bloggers from the Dvizhenie channel. In particular, Gorokhov was found to own real estate, clearly not corresponding to the level of his salary and built in violation of land laws. These accusations were partly confirmed by the results of an internal inspection in the traffic police department.
Detained since
Sep 29, 2020
Charge(s)
- Other
Sentence
10 years and 6 months
Latitude: 53.41667974880896
Longitude: 41.79370857102407
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
Location of detention - City/Town
Morshansk
Location of detention - Facility
FKU IK-5 UFSIN of Russia for the Tambov Region 39 Surikova Street Morshansk, Tambov Region, 393950 Russia
Any other relevant documents
Russian journalists imprisoned, beaten during arrests and detention https://cpj.org/2020/08/russian-journalists-imprisoned-beaten-during-arrests-and-detention/
Memorial: Moscow region bloggers Aleksandr Dorogov and Yan Katelevsky are political prisoners https://memohrc.org/en/news_old/memorial-moscow-region-bloggers-aleksandr-dorogov-and-yan-katelevsky-are-political
Attachments
- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1976
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Fight against corruption
- Organization affiliation
- Rosderzhava
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Alexander Dorogov is a blogger and journalist for the online media outlet ‘Rosderzhava’. He has five children, including three minors.
Together with Jan Katelewski, he published his materials criticising the authorities and journalistic investigations of corruption, criminality and police misconduct.
The last published investigation by journalists was devoted to the raiding of the funeral business in the Moscow region and the possible covering up of this by the Moscow region police. In 2018, the bloggers demanded that expired products be removed from sale in a shop; as a result, they were taken to a Moscow police station and Dorogov's arm was injured after an altercation with the head of the department.
The bulk of the accusations are related to the figure of Gorokhov, a traffic police inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Moscow region. Since 2019, he and his fellow officers have become regular heroes of Dorogov's and Katelevsky's videos. Over time, Gorokhov attracted the attention of fellow bloggers from the Dvizhenie channel. In particular, Gorokhov was found to own real estate, clearly not corresponding to the level of his salary and built in violation of land laws. These accusations were partly confirmed by the results of an internal inspection in the traffic police department.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Semi urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Europe: Eastern Europe
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Morshansk
- Location of detention - Facility
- FKU IK-5 UFSIN of Russia for the Tambov Region 39 Surikova Street Morshansk, Tambov Region, 393950 Russia
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 53.41667974880896
Longitude: 41.79370857102407
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Sep 29, 2020
- Current Status
- In prison (sentenced)
- Charge(s)
- Other
- Sentence
10 years and 6 months
- Allegations / reports of ill-treatment
Alexander Dorogov suffered spinal and abdominal injuries as a result of the arrest. In his letter, the journalist said that he had been beaten up by his cellmates in the Egoryevsk pre-trial detention centre. Before the fight started, the instigators allegedly made references to the people mentioned in Dorogov's exposés. According to his lawyer, who saw him a week after the beating, Dorogov's ribs were bruised, his ear was torn off, his leg and forearm were injured and his T-shirt was stained with blood. https://www.svoboda.org/a/30814414.html
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Any other relevant documents
Russian journalists imprisoned, beaten during arrests and detention https://cpj.org/2020/08/russian-journalists-imprisoned-beaten-during-arrests-and-detention/
Memorial: Moscow region bloggers Aleksandr Dorogov and Yan Katelevsky are political prisoners https://memohrc.org/en/news_old/memorial-moscow-region-bloggers-aleksandr-dorogov-and-yan-katelevsky-are-political
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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