Russian Police Detain Journalists Who Back Media Freedom

Russian Police Detain Journalists Who Back Media Freedom
Police detain a journalist with a poster reading "Journalism Freedom" during individual pickets in Moscow on Aug. 21, 2021. Denis Kaminev/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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MOSCOW, Russia—Russian police on Saturday detained several journalists who protested authorities’ decision to label a top independent TV channel as a “foreign agent.”

The journalists held individual pickets outside the main headquarters of the country’s top domestic security agency, the FSB, on Moscow’s Lubyanka Square.