US EditionNovaya Gazeta Editor Charged in Privacy Investigation
The charge carries a maximum sentence of four years, and the Committee to Protect Journalists called for his immediate release.
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Russian journalist charged with unauthorized access to computer data as part of a group
Russian journalist Oleg Roldugin has been charged with unauthorized access to computer data as part of a group, the independent Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta, where he works as a columnist, reported.
Accused of illegal use of data, Oleg Roldugine, journalist and editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, denies the facts and refers to a file potentially linked to his investigations of relatives of power.
The break-up of the law enforcement agencies in the newspaper's headlines on Thursday, 9 April, was widely echoed in the exiled press. A case that attests to the vulnerability of journalism in Russia, subjected to unprecedented pressure since the outbreak of the total war against Ukraine. One of the journalists of the independent title was charged on Tuesday, 14 April.
The journalist Oleg Roldugin was charged with unlawful access to computer information in a group of persons (article 272, paragraph 3, of the Criminal Code, up to five years' imprisonment), as reported by the television channel of the publication on 14 April.
Novaya Gazeta journalist Oleg Roldugin charged with illegal data access — Novaya Gazeta Europe
Novaya Gazeta journalist Oleg Roldugin, who was detained amid the Russian authorities’ 13-hour raid on the outlet’s newsroom in Moscow last Thursday, has been formally charged with “illegally accessing computer information” as part of a group, the newspaper reports .
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