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A Russian court ordered the continued pre-trial detention of a prominent former journalist accused of treason, while striking out one element of the charges against him.
The Moscow City Court rejected Ivan Safronov’s bid to
be released from custody, leaving him in jail for at least two months. Safronov, who regularly broke news on sensitive arms deals while working for the Kommersant newspaper over much of the past decade, denies the accusations against him.
Investigators say Safronov, who was detained, passed classified information to Czech intelligence that Prague then passed on to the US, according to his lawyer Ivan Pavlov.