18 countries demanded from the Russian Federation to stop the persecution of independent media

The governments of 18 countries, including the United States, Germany, France and Britain, signed a joint statement in which the Russian authorities called on to stop pressure on independent media.

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Dozens of journalists and the media have been included in the last four months in the register of "foreign agents". According to the authors of the statement, the Russian authorities are trying to close the Media Corporation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Russia, accusing its divisions of more than 600 violations and imposing fines for a total of $ 4.4 million on them. The Russian authorities also expelled from the country of the British media company the Air Force Sarah Reinspord.

Also, as an example of the pursuit of the press, the detention of journalists on promotions in support of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny, the persecution of the authors of the DOXA student magazine, and the recognition of the Project publication, are given.

"We declare our condemnation of persecution and persecution by the Russian government in relation to independent journalists and the media. We strongly urge the Russian Federation to observe our international obligations and obligations in the field of human rights, as well as respect and ensure the freedom of the media and the security of journalists. We urge the Russian government to stop suppressing independent votes, to terminate politically motivated trials against journalists and the media, and to free all unfairly. detainees, ”the statement said.

Press Secretary of President Vladimir Putin - Dmitry Peskov - said that Russia would not listen to the calls of Western countries to stop pressure on independent media. “We are talking about our internal legislation. We do not intend to discuss it with anyone,” RIA Novosti quotes Peskova.

• Since the end of 2020, the Ministry of Justice of Russia began to introduce Russian journalists, human rights activists, lawyers and activists in the register of individual agents. Now there are more than 50 people on the list, including journalists who work with Radio Liberty and North. Realii, publisher of Mediazones (entered into the register of media-agents) Petr Verzilov, chief editor of Mediazone Sergey Smirnov, lawyer and head of the Media Protection Center Galina Arapova, chief editor of the important stories (entered into the register of media-regents) Anin, human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, coordinators of the regional branches "Voice" (entered in the register of foreign agents).
• In 2021, the Ministry of Justice introduced several publications to the media-foreign register, including Mediazona, Medusa, Rain, Rosbalt VTIMES, The Insider, and the investigative project BELLINGCAT.
• In early October, the FSB published a list of information that is not related to secret information or GOSTIN, for the disclosure of which you can get the status of a foreign agent. Among them are information on the assessment and forecasts of the development of the military-political and strategic situation, as well as information about the crimes in the army.

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