Belarusian activist Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk has gone on a hunger strike in protest against the unacceptable conditions in the detention center where she is being held in the city of Rechitsa, southeast of Minsk, the Vyasna human rights center said.
A Russian-born Swedish citizen was charged August 28 with collecting information for the Russian military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade.
The Bishkek city prosecutor's office has initiated legal proceedings against the Kloop Media Public Foundation to suspend its work in Kyrgyzstan because of its critical coverage of the government.
Israeli producer Gadi Oron, an organizer of a tour of Russia's Lenkom Theater in Tel Aviv, said that due to protests by Russian-speaking Israelis, Lenkom's performances in Israel had been postponed.