Prosecutors in Moscow are reportedly seeking lengthy jail terms in the case of five former police officers accused of attempting to frame a reporter from Russian-language news site Meduza on trumped-up charges of drug possession.
Lawyers for one of the defendants confirmed that authorities have asked the judge to consider sentences of between seven and 16 years behind bars for the men, who arrested Ivan Golunov, a correspondent from the Latvian outlet, on narcotics trafficking charges in 2019. Meduza is registered as a ‘foreign agent’ by Russia’s Ministry of Justice, which says it has links to foreign funding.
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