PEN America: Baseless Charges Against Russian Journalist Continue
July 09, 2020
July 09, 2020
NEW YORK, July 9 -- PEN America issued the following news release:
On Monday, a Russian court found journalist Svetlana Prokopieva, a correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Echo of Moscow, guilty on specious charges of "inciting terrorism," in connection with her 2018 reporting on a 17-year-old who committed suicide inside an FSB building. While prosecutors had initially sought a six-year prison sentence and four-year work ban, the judge instead fined Prokop . . .
On Monday, a Russian court found journalist Svetlana Prokopieva, a correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Echo of Moscow, guilty on specious charges of "inciting terrorism," in connection with her 2018 reporting on a 17-year-old who committed suicide inside an FSB building. While prosecutors had initially sought a six-year prison sentence and four-year work ban, the judge instead fined Prokop . . .