28-05-2020 18:41 via news.yahoo.com

Moscow court jails journalist for one-person protest during coronavirus lockdown

A Moscow court on Thursday jailed a prominent anti-Kremlin journalist for a one-person protest during the city's coronavirus lockdown, sentencing him to 15 days in prison.Ilya Azar, a journalist at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which is critical of the Kremlin, was detained by police on Tuesday as he stood alone outside the Russian capital's police headquarters to protest against the criminal prosecution of a popular blogger.Such one-person protests are usually legal in Russia, but Sergei Sobyani
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