A Moscow court ordered a Russian journalist who covered the trials of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and other dissidents to remain in custody pending a trial on charges of extremism.
and other dissidents to remain in custody pending an investigation and trial on charges of extremism.
She is accused of collecting material, producing and editing videos and publications for Navalny's Foundation for Fighting Corruption, which had been outlawed as extremist by Russian authorities, according to court officials. Antonina Favorskaya stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 29, 2024.
Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony in February. Favorskaya covered Navalny's court hearings for years, as well as trials of other Kremlin critics swept up in a relentless government clampdown.
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