Alerts | Arrest/detention under other laws

Police briefly detain NBC News journalist in Moscow

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Matthew Bodner, an American journalist with NBC News in Moscow, was briefly detained without cause by police in the capital, who demanded his team not take photographs of Russian soldiers and accused the journalists of spreading ‘disinformation’.

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