Russia - Journalist arrested after interviewing Siberian autonomy advocate

Reporters without borders

Authorities say he must do jail time for insulting a governor in blog posts in 2011 Читать по-русски в PDF и ниже / Read in Russian Reporters Without Borders condemns Siberian journalist and blogger Dmitry Shipilov (Дмитрий Шипилов)'s detention since 10 September, when he was arrested near Moscow just hours after a newspaper published an interview by him with a champion of Siberian autonomy. Officially, Shipilov was arrested to serve a jail sentence in a case dating back to 2012, but everything suggests that his detention (...)

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