A court in the Siberian city of Barnaul has rejected a request by journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who is under house arrest on the charge of discrediting Russia’s armed forces with "fake" social-media posts about the war in Ukraine, to be transferred to a pretrial detention center. Ponomarenko’s lawyer Dmitry Shitov told RFE/RL on January 10 his client wants to be transferred to pretrial detention to protest the military mobilization by the Russian government. Ponomarenko was arrested in April and faces up to 10 years in prison for her online posts. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.
Siberian Court Refuses To Transfer Journalist Ponomarenko To Detention Center
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