After anti-mobilization protests broke out on September 21, at least 18 journalists were among thousands of people arrested in cities across Russia that day, according to the independent Journalists and Media Workers Union (JMWU) and the OVD-Info rights group. As protests continued in cities across the country over the weekend, IPI documented at least nine more confirmed detentions of journalists and media workers, with the majority occurring on Saturday, September 24, bringing the total to at least 27. In analysis of media reporting of those detained, IPI identified Zvezda online magazine reporter Yuri Kuroptev, Sota Vision journalists Artem Krieger, Boris Zhirnov, Ekaterina Parfyonova and Nail Mullaev, and RusNews journalists Andrey Kichev, Roman Ivanov and Irina Salomatova.