Russia Detains Japanese Journalist for Alleged Espionage
Tokyo, Oct. 13 (Jiji Press)--Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, said Tuesday that it has detained a male reporter for Hokkaido Shimbun Press, a newspaper publisher in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido, on suspicion of espionage. The FSB claims that he was gathering information on mobilized soldiers and others at the direction of a Japanese intelligence agency. The rep...
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Tuesday that they have detained a male reporter from Hokkaido Shimbun Press, a newspaper publisher in Hokkaido, Japan, on suspicion of espionage. The FSB alleges that the reporter was gathering information on mobilized soldiers and others under the direction of a Japanese intelligence agency.
The detained reporter, a Japanese national, was transported to Moscow, where a court ordered his continued detention for a period of two months, as reported by Russia's Interfax news agency. According to the FSB, the reporter collected and stored data concerning the number of mobilized soldiers and volunteer fighters who participated in the invasion of Ukraine from the Kuril Islands, also known as the Chishima Islands off Hokkaido, and four Russian-controlled northern Pacific islands claimed by Japan.
The FSB detained the reporter in Sakhalin, Russia's Far East, as he was in the process of departing the country.
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