Russia: followed Navalny trials, prison for journalist Antonina Favorskaya

ServiceThe decision of the Moscow Court

The hearing took place behind closed doors at the request of the investigators, supported by the president of the court

March 30, 2024

Antonina Favorskaya stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 29, 2024. A court in Moscow makes a decision on measure of restrain to journalist Antonina Favorskaya in the case of her connection with the FBK, the Anti-Corruption Foundation set up by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2011 and declared extremist and closed in 2021. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

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A Moscow court ordered today, March 30, that the Russian journalist Antonina Favorskaya, whose arrest on Wednesday evening, at the end of a previous period of detention, was reported yesterday, will remain under arrest until at least May 28.

For Antonina Favorskaya, known for covering the trials of Alexei Navalny, identified by court officials as Antonina Kravtsova, Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has ordered her to remain in pre-trial detention pending an investigation and trial on charges of extremism. The hearing took place behind closed doors at the request of the investigators, supported by the president of the court.

Independent news site Mediazona reports that Favorskaya and her lawyer protested the decision. “I am absolutely against a closed-door trial. The press needs to know what is happening, what I am accused of,” Favorskaya said