PEN America Issues Statement on Arrest of Peaceful Protesters Supporting Journalist Golunov
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019
NEW YORK, June 13 -- PEN America issued the following statement by Summer Lopez, senior director of free expression programs, in response to reports of mass arrests at peaceful marches in support of journalist Ivan Golunov:
"Russian authorities could not go more than one day without showing their true colors.
"Having released one unjustly imprisoned journalist, they turn around and arrest a dozen more, alongside hundreds of other peaceful protesters who were s . . .
"Russian authorities could not go more than one day without showing their true colors.
"Having released one unjustly imprisoned journalist, they turn around and arrest a dozen more, alongside hundreds of other peaceful protesters who were s . . .