Russia - Guardian correspondent's expulsion seen as warning to all foreign reporters

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is deeply disturbed by Russia's expulsion of Luke Harding, The Guardian's Moscow correspondent, regarding it as an explicit and unacceptable warning to all foreign correspondents based in the country. Harding was denied entry on his return to Moscow on 5 February after a visit to the United Kingdom, and was put on a flight back to London. “This is a heavy-handed attempt to get journalists to censor themselves and to prevent impartial coverage of what is happening in (...)

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