A prominent investigative reporter has been arrested in Russia on charges of drug dealing, prompting an outcry from the country's community.
A prominent investigative reporter has been arrested in Russia on charges of drug dealing, prompting an outcry from the country's community of embattled independent journalists who say he is being set up as punishment for exposing corruption.
Golunov's editors at Meduza swiftly denounced his arrest, saying they were certain he was being framed. Through his lawyer, Dmitry Djulai, Golunov accused police of planting the drugs during the arrest. He also said that officers punched and kicked him while questioning him in the police station, and initially prevented him from contacting a lawyer. When his lawyer arrived, police refused to take swabs of Golunov's hands or his rucksack, which could show whether he had handled the drugs, Djulai said.
Reporters Without Borders, an international advocacy group for journalists, said the police's"extremely strange behavior" suggested that Golunov has been arrested"on a trumped-up charge." Johann Bihr, the head of RSF’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk said that if this was the case"it would mark a significant escalation in the harassment of the country’s independent media.
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