'As a result of examination by paramedics, the decision was taken to send the detainee [Ivan Golunov] to a medical facility for assessment.' Moscow police say on Russian journalist in drugs case
A police officer stands in front of a bus with reporters detained after a rally in support of detained journalist Ivan Golunov, in Moscow, Russia, June 7, 2019.
Russian police have charged Golunov with attempting to deal a "large amount" of illegal drugs, his lawyer said Saturday. An organisation that tracks politically connected arrests, OVD-Info, said 11 journalists were detained at the protest, but later released without charges. The website is based in Riga, Latvia, as the journalists fear that an increasing wave of media censorship and restrictive internet laws in Russia make any editorial office there vulnerable to government pressure. 's staff is based in Riga, special correspondents like Golunov are working in Russia.
"Vanya's apartment had white walls. I can't imagine all of the stuff in those pictures can be fitted in the apartment that I have been to so that no one would notice." "This is totally incredible and is not in his character that he would give up what he's been doing and start making money in this way," Alexander Baunov of the Moscow Carnegie Center told the AP. Baunov has known Golunov since 2004 when they worked at the same publishing house.
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