Police have conducted mass searches at homes of reporters working with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Tatar-inform reports without providing names.
Law enforcement officers came to the home of sociologist, columnist of Idel.Realii news outlet and author of Novaya Gazeta Iskander Yasaveyev, as well as four reporters who do freelance work for RFE/RL. OVD-Info, a Russian human rights group that monitors political arrests, suggests that one of the people whose homes were searched was Marina Yudkevich, a reporter with Tatpolit news portal, who also works for the Tatar-language version of the Idel.Realii website.
According to Tatar-inform, the police searches were carried out in relation to a criminal case “on the justification of terrorism and violence against government representatives”. The news portal claims that police found