Moscow court arrests columnist Kara-Murza on suspicion of discrediting armed forces

Society & Culture April 22, 2022, 21:49

The police detained Kara-Murza in Moscow on April 11 and accused him of disobeying the police

MOSCOW, April 22. /TASS/. A court in Moscow has ordered that columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza be arrested until June 12 on suspicion of discrediting the Russian armed forces, the court told TASS on Friday.

The police detained Kara-Murza in Moscow on April 11 and accused him of disobeying the police. A court on April 12 found him guilty of the offense and ordered him to serve 15 days of administrative arrest.

The Russian Justice Ministry included Kara-Murza on the list of foreign agents, according to data on the ministry’s website.

The ministry also added Leonid Volkov to the list. Volkov is a former employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (designated as an extremist organization in Russia).

The ministry on Friday listed Alexey Venediktov, former editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, and journalists Alexander Nevzorov and Sergey Parkhomenko as foreign agent news media, data on the ministry’s website showed.

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