Russia - Sochi-based reporter sentenced to three days in prison

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Читать по-русски в PDF и ниже / Read in Russian Reporters Without Borders condemns the arbitrary three-day sentence that a court in Sochi imposed on 6 July on Anna Gritsevich, a reporter for the leading news website Kavkasky Uzel, and demands her immediate release. She was convicted of refusing to obey instructions from the police while filming a protest. Gritsevich was briefly arrested while covering a demonstration on 29 June by about 40 residents of Chereshnya, a village near Sochi, in protest against (...)

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