Russian police have detained several journalists who protested authorities’ decision to label a top independent TV channel as a “foreign agent.” The protesters held up signs that read “Journalism is not a crime” and “You are afraid of the truth.”
Police detain a journalist with the poster reads "Journalism Freedom", during individual pickets in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. Russian police have detained several journalists who protested authorities' decision to label a top independent TV channel as a "foreign agent." The journalists held individual pickets Saturday outside the main headquarters of the country's top domestic security agency, the FSB, on Moscow's Lubyanka Square.
The journalists held individual pickets outside the main headquarters of the country’s top domestic security agency, the FSB, on Moscow’s Lubyanka Square. Those detained were handed summons to attend court hearings on charges of violating rules of holding pickets, an administrative offense that carries a fine up to $270.“I’m against labelling the TV channel Dozhd as a ‘foreign agent,’” said Farida Rustamova, a Dozhd journalist who picketed on Saturday. “I want to work and live freely in Russia. I want to have an opportunity to be a free journalist.
“The fact that we don’t want to write stories that other pro-government media do doesn’t mean that we violate something and that we are some ‘foreign agents,’” Krasnikova said. “I’m here to protest it and to support my colleagues.”
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