Russia: Journalists covering Navalny’s imprisonment detained

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the detention of journalists covering a protest in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Russia. On Tuesday April 7, at least five journalists and media workers were detained as they were reporting from outside the penal colony east of Moscow in which Navalny is serving his sentence and is currently being