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Newshour: Russian investigative journalist under house arrest

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Russian investigative journalist under house arrest

08/06/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Russian investigative journalist under house arrest

Russian police charge journalist with drug dealing

Russian police charge journalist with drug dealing.

Ivan Golunov, a Russian investigative journalist, has been placed under house arrest in Moscow after being charged with trying to illegally sell drugs. Police said they had found the synthetic drug, mephedrone, in his rucksack. Ivan Kolpakov is the editor of Meduza, an opposition news website where Mr Golunov. He told Newshour what had happened. 

Also on the programme: Former Syrian footballer turned opposition activist Abdel Basset al-Sarout has died and it’s the second day of the 2019 Women’s World Cup.

(Photo: Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov, who was detained by police and accused of drug offences, attends a court hearing in Moscow. Credit: REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva)

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