Russia: Arrest of editor-in-chief underscores new level of pressure on journalists
Sergei Smirnov spent 15 days in a detention center for retweeting a joke. The editor-in-chief of online platform Mediazona has just been let out, but his arrest shows a tightening grip on critical voices.
The imprisonment of Mediazona editor-in-chief Sergei Smirnov highlights Russia s tightened grip on press freedom
Sergei Smirnov was about to go for a walk in snowy Moscow with his young son and two colleagues. But the plan came to a halt when he was suddenly arrested a move that soon put Russia s press freedom under renewed scrutiny.