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3 days ago · These processes were not considered satisfactory, and so in February–March 2013, the Presumption of Death Act 2013 was passed to simplify this process. [8] The new act, which is based on the Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977, [9] allows applying to the High Court to declare a person presumed dead.
2 days ago · A court in Moscow said on Tuesday it had found Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar guilty in absentia of knowingly distributing false information about the Russian army and sentenced him to 8-1/2 ...
2 days ago · A Moscow court has sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight years and a half years in prison in absentia for disseminating “fake news” about the Russian army, the latest ...
2 days ago · New York, July 23, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned Tuesday’s sentencing of exiled journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar to 8½ years in jail in absentia, on charges of spreading “fake” information about the Russian military in Ukraine, and called on Russian authorities to stop harassing journalists in exile. “The punitive sentence handed down by...
2 days ago · Join us in this fight. A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition media. Zygar was charged with “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the ...
2 days ago · A Moscow court convicted journalist Mikhail Zygar in absentia for distributing false information about the Russian army, sentencing him to 8.5 years in prison. The charges relate to an Instagram post from April 2022 about alleged war crimes in Bucha. Zygar, now designated a 'foreign agent,' left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. A Moscow ...
3 days ago · The verdict follows another conviction in absentia of a prominent Russian-American journalist, reporter and writer Masha Gessen, who lives in the United States. Gessen – an opinion columnist for The New York Times and the author of numerous books about Russia – was sentenced to eight years in prison for criticizing the Russian military last Monday.
