"They're afraid of a dead Navalny." The court remanded journalist Antonina Favorskaya, who was taking a photo report at Borisovskoye Cemetery, in custody.
The Moscow City Court rejected the appeal of the publication's journalist. SOTAvision, which received 10 days of arrest for "disobeying a police officer." This was reported by a correspondent of "NotMoscow" from the courtroom.
In today's speech Favorskaya She recalled that she was detained on March 17 at a cafe where she was having lunch with colleagues. Prior to that, the journalist had been photographing people visiting the grave. Alexey Navalny.
When I stood up and grabbed my phone, the masked man started to snatch it from my hands, and eventually the crowd pushed me to the floor, — Favorskaya clarified.
She considers her detention to be “a pure provocation” intended to intimidate.
They are so afraid of dead Navalny that they decided to put pressure on me, — said the journalist.
Antonina Favorskaya attended all of Alexei Navalny's trials, which were initially held in Vladimir, then - in Kovrov и HarpeAfter his death, she regularly visited the grave to take current photographs.
Her lawyer Fedor Sirosh He clarified that the 10 days of arrest would expire on the evening of March 27.
Favorskaya left the court to the applause of her assembled colleagues. As she climbed into the police car, she called for flowers to be brought to Navalny's grave on March 26—the 40th day since his death.
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