human rights defender
Aleksander Dorogov
Actions and Campaigns
human rights defender
Actions and Campaigns
1976
Man
Semi urban
In prison (sentenced)
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.
Sep 29, 2020
10 years and 6 months
Latitude: 53.41667974880896
Longitude: 41.79370857102407
Morshansk
FKU IK-5 UFSIN of Russia for the Tambov Region 39 Surikova Street Morshansk, Tambov Region, 393950 Russia
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

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.
Latitude: 53.41667974880896
Longitude: 41.79370857102407
10 years and 6 months
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
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