A Moscow court has ordered preventive detention against journalist Antonina Favorskaya, of the unbiased Russian media Sota Visionby “participation in an extremist group” due to its links with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the NGO led by the late opponent Alexèi Navalni.
Judge Elena Lenskaya of Moscow’s Basmanny court has decided in a session that was held behind closed doorways that the journalist will stay in preventive detention till May 28as reported by the TASS information company.
Favorskaya was detained on Wednesday shortly after leaving Sakharovo jail, the place she spent ten days in administrative arrest on costs of police disobedience within the context of the demonstrations that occurred in Russia after the demise of Navalny.
Specifically, she has been charged below article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code. During her arrest, searches had been carried out at each her residence and the houses of two different journalists, Alexandra Astakhova and Anastasia Musatova, within the framework of the identical case.
Favorskaya lined all of Navalny’s trials and recorded the final video through which the opponent seems earlier than he died in a distant Arctic jail final February whereas serving a sentence for extremism.
