The police arrested a journalist protesting the persecution of independent media in Moscow on Saturday.
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Reporters protested against Russia’s decision to persecute other independent media as “foreign agents.” They have been released, but most of them face fines.
VoltIn front of the Secret Service headquarters FSB On Saturday, several journalists were arrested in Moscow for protesting the persecution of other Russian independent media as “foreign agents.” According to OWD-Info’s lawyers, the police took 12 people away. Almost everyone participated in a personal vigil-meetings are strictly prohibited-and criticized the decision against the online broadcaster TV Doschd (Rain) and the investigative portal Waschnyje Istorii (Important Stories), which was widely known and in the news on Friday Fight for freedom.
Everyone except one reporter was released on Sunday night, but most of them faced fines for alleged violations of the law, and the detainees were even arrested for 30 days.Since the spring, the punitive rules for “foreign agents” have been more severe than ever before against the remaining independent Russian media, including individual journalists like the present. Vashnye Istorii Editor-in-Chief Roman Anin, And many of his colleagues.
They must give the authorities a full account of their income and expenditures on a regular basis, accuse themselves of being agents in public statements, and be named by other media. As a result, more and more Russian “foreign agents” are reporting on other “agents”. On Saturday, the Justice Department also included a freelance journalist association called the Fourth Department on the list of “secret agents.”
