The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal against the decision to fine and deferred deportation of Novaya Gazeta journalist Ali Feruz. Pavel Gafarov reported this in the Feruz support group chat.

On November 21, the Basmanny Courtfound the journalist guilty of violating Part 2 of Art. 18.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (carrying out labor activities by a foreign citizen or a stateless person without a work permit or patent). Feruz was fined five thousand rubles. The court also determined that he should be expelled from Russia, but suspended this process due to the decision of the ECHR. The journalist said that Novaya employees helped him financially, but this did not constitute remuneration.

Ali Feruz left Uzbekistan eight years ago due to the fact that the intelligence services of this country were trying to persuade him to cooperate, and began to live in Russia. Before Feruz could escape, he was tortured. On August 1, the journalist was detained in Moscow and taken to the police department, where a report was drawn up against him under an article that implies mandatory deportation from the country.
On August 4, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision prohibiting the Russian authorities from deporting Feruz to Uzbekistan, and on August 8, based on this ban, the Moscow City Court suspended the deportation of Feruz. Until the end of the trial, the journalist was placed in the TsVSIG.

The court upheld the fine and deferred deportation of journalist Ali Feruz