The journalists who illegally crossed the Russian border in the Kursk Region near Sudzha will be placed on the international wanted list, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Public Relations Center said.
Criminal charges have been filed against Italian journalists Simone Traini and Stefania Battistini, CNN reporter Nick Paton Walsh and Ukrainian correspondents Olesya Borovik and Diana Butsko under Article 322, Part 3 of Russia’s Criminal Code for illegally crossing the state border of the Russian Federation. "In the near future, they will be placed on the international wanted list," the press service noted.
"This article of the Russian Criminal Code carries a punishment of incarceration of up to five years," the FSB said.
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Russia's FSB security service has opened a criminal case against a journalist working for CNN who it said had illegally crossed the Russian border to film a report inside the Kursk region, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.
ReplyDeleteInterfax named the journalist as Nick Paton Walsh, a British citizen. It said the FSB had also opened similar cases against two Ukrainian journalists
Russia has opened a criminal case against US correspondent Nick Paton Walsh and two Ukrainian journalists for unlawfully crossing the Russian border and filming in the town of Sudzha in the Kursk Region, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday.
ReplyDelete"The Russian FSB has opened and is investigating criminal cases ... against US journalist Nick Paton Walsh and Ukrainian correspondents Olesya Nikolaevna Borovik and Diana Vladimirovna Butsko, who illegally crossed the Russian state border and filmed in the area of the village of Sudzha in the Kursk Region," the FSB said in a statement.