Tag: Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty

Jailed in Putin’s Russia for Speaking the Truth

The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented that at least 320 members of the press were behind bars around the globe as 2024 began. In Vladimir Putin’s police state, at least 22 journalists are jailed, most for committing that most elemental of journalistic duties, speaking the truth. Two of them are American reporters. One of […]

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Russia Detains a U.S. Journalist, Alsu Kurmasheva

The Russian authorities have detained an editor working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, an American broadcaster funded by the United States government, on charges of failing to register as a “foreign agent,” the media company said on Thursday. The editor, Alsu Kurmasheva, who holds both Russian and United States citizenship, is the second American journalist […]

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