Russia; Journalists associated with Forbes detained for spreading fake news about the army

Moscow: A Russian court has ordered Sergei Mangazov, a journalist associated with the famous magazine Forbes, to be detained for two months for spreading fake news about the army.

According to the report of the American broadcasting organization (CNN), the official Russian news agency Riya Novosti said that the journalist Sergei Mangazov was arrested for allegedly running fake news about the Russian armed forces, after which the court detained him. Ordered.

Forbes Russia said in a statement that the journalist will remain in detention for at least two months, having been arrested on Friday and awaiting trial.

Forbes journalist Sergei Mangazov has been arrested and detained for spreading false news about the Russian armed forces, Russian news agencies said on Saturday.

Sergei Mangazov’s lawyer, Konstantin Babon, said in a statement on Friday that the journalist had been arrested for republishing reports on Telegram about the events that took place in the Bucha region of Ukraine.

In a news story on Telegram, the journalist shared the news of the brutal actions allegedly carried out by the Russian soldier in Bucha, near Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, which was broadcast on the BBC’s Russian Service and Radio Freedom.

Lawyer Konstantin Babon said that the journalist is accused of having knowingly spread fake information about the Russian armed forces under the guise of providing verified news.

He said that the court has banned the journalist from using the internet and has also banned him from communicating with relatives, investigators, lawyers and medical experts.

The lawyer said that the journalist’s detention was done as a precautionary measure, a preventive or preventive measure in Russia that includes being placed on trial and institutionalized, or released on bail or detained in the meantime. is kept

It should be noted that the Ukrainian city of Bucha was captured by Russian forces in the early days of the war that began in February 2022, while the Ukrainian army regained control of the city in March.

Ukraine’s prosecutor general said the Russian military had committed thousands of war crimes in Bucha and killed hundreds of civilians, while Russia rejected allegations of massacres there and photos of dead bodies dismissed the claims as baseless. It was declared fake.