Journalist jailed in Chechnya on drug possession charges
The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over the Sept. 5 sentencing of Zhalaudi Geriev, a journalist with the Russian news website Kavkazsky Uzel (Caucasian Knot), by a court in Chechnya to three years imprisonment for alleged marijuana possession. IPI Director of Advocacy and Communications Steven M. Ellis expressed fears that the charges against […]
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