Journalists Imprisoned in Russia

 

The journalist Antonina Favorskaya filmed the last video of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny before he died in a Russian prison. Russian authorities have since detained Favorskaya, accusing her of taking part in an “extremist organization” by posting on the social media platforms of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. However, Favorskaya did not publish anything on the foundation’s platforms, Navalny’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said, suggesting that Russian authorities targeted her because she was doing her job as a journalist. Favorskaya was one of six journalists across Russia held this month, the media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders said.

 

One year ago, masked Russian officers grabbed the American journalist Evan Gershkovich at a steakhouse in Ekaterinburg on spying charges that are entirely unsupported by evidence. The Wall Street Journal reporter has been behind bars ever since, held in the infamous Lefortovo prison on the outskirts of Moscow where the Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was once detained. 

-The Guardian