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The Russian authorities has opened a prison investigation right into a CNN correspondent for reporting from Ukrainian-occupied Russia, an project defended by the information community.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN’s chief worldwide safety correspondent, on the invitation of the Ukrainian authorities, was escorted by their navy final week to Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk area to report on Ukraine’s shock cross-border incursion and occupation.
Russia’s predominant inner safety company, the Federal Safety Service (FSB), mentioned in a press release that it had “initiated and is investigating prison circumstances” in opposition to Paton Walsh and two Ukrainian journalists.
It accused them of getting “illegally crossed the State Border of the Russian Federation and filmed within the space ofthe Sudzha settlement within the Kursk Area.”
CNN mentioned in a press release: “All through this battle our group has delivered factual, neutral reporting protecting each the Ukrainian and Russian views on the warfare.”
“Our group was invited by the Ukrainian authorities, together with different worldwide journalists, and escorted by the Ukrainian navy to view territory it had not too long ago occupied. That is protected exercise in accordance with the rights afforded to journalists beneath the Geneva Conference and worldwide regulation.”
The FSB mentioned that the journalists can be positioned on an “worldwide wished listing.” It’s not clear to which listing the FSB referred.
