ICIJ concerned by raid on reporter Roman Anin’s apartment
Investigative reporter Roman Anin was reportedly taken in for questioning following a raid on his apartment by Russia’s Federal Security Service. April 9, 2021
ICIJ is deeply concerned by reports from Moscow that investigative reporter Roman Anin was taken in for questioning following a raid on his apartment by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
Roman Annin
Anin, the editor in chief of I-Stories, has worked with ICIJ on several major investigations that have exposed global crime and corruption.
“We are closely monitoring the treatment of our cherished member, and partner in investigative reporting, Roman Anin,” said ICIJ director Gerard Ryle.
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a terrorist attack in Crimea’s capital city Simferopol by detaining two supporters of the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (outlawed in Russia), who were plotting an attack against an educational establishment with the use of makeshift bombs, the FSB’s Public Relations Center said on Friday. The Federal Security Service has thwarted an act of terrorism in the Republic of Crimea. Two Russian citizens (born in 1992 and 1999) were detained. Both are members of the international terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (outlawed in Russia). They were plotting an armed attack with the use of makeshift explosive devices against an educational establishment in Simferopol, the FSB said.
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Vladimir Putin s Adviser Says U.S. Is Developing Biological Weapons Near Russia
On 4/8/21 at 6:38 AM EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin s chief security adviser has said Moscow has good reason to believe the U.S. is developing biological weapons along the borders of Russia and China.
Nikolai Patrushev, who is the secretary of Russia s Security Council, made the comments during a part of an interview with the newspaper
Kommersant, in which journalist Elena Chernenko asked him about claims that China had deliberately caused the coronavirus pandemic.
Defending Beijing, Patrushev replied: I suggest that you look at how more and more biological laboratories under U.S. control are growing considerably in the world and by a strange coincidence, mainly by the Russian and Chinese borders.
Jailed Crimean Journalist Tells Court He Was Tortured, Coerced To Confess On Russian TV
April 06, 2021 13:17 GMT
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine An RFE/RL freelance correspondent arrested in Ukraine s Russia-annexed Crimea
has told a court he was tortured with electric shocks, beaten, and threatened with being killed unless he confessed to spying on behalf of Ukraine.
Vladyslav Yesypenko s lawyer Aleksei Ladin said on April 6 that his client testified during a closed hearing in court that the torture lasted two days after his arrest in March on what both men say are false charges. [Yesypenko] told the court that he was tortured in a basement, most likely somewhere in the area of Balaklava, from the moment of his detention until his transfer to the detention center in Simferopol, Ladin said after the hearing.