AFP and Europa Press
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, September 28, 2024, p. 18
Moscow. Yesterday, the Russian security services opened criminal investigations against three journalists, two Americans and one Romanian, for cross irregularly the Russian border from Ukraine to report in the occupied part of the Kursk region, Russian news agencies reported.
The Federal Security Service indicated in a brief statement that the case was opened against Fletcher Young, Catherine Diss, both of the Australian television network ABC, and against the Romanian Mircea Parbu, of the news portal HotNews.
He highlighted that all of them are suspected of irregularly crossing the territorial line. In total, cases have been opened against 12 foreign correspondents for these illegal acts since August 17he indicated.
Meanwhile, Stefan Hubbard, a 72-year-old American, was presented before a Moscow court accused of acts of mercenary in the service of Ukrainea crime that has a prison sentence of between 7 to 15 years, a state news agency reported.
The prosecution’s request is admitted: precautionary measure in the form of detention for a period of six months for the accused from this date until March 26, 2025read the judge in charge of the case.
At the hearing it emerged that the accused, also related to the identification of Steven James Humberd, arrived in Ukraine in 2014 and lived with a woman, whom he later abandoned.
According to the prosecution, Hubbard signed a contract with a Ukrainian military unit in the city of Izium on February 25, 2022.
The contract specifies that the defendant must earn no less than a thousand dollars a month. He received military training, a firearm, ammunition and uniformnoted the Russian authority.
Hubbard participated in the armed conflict until he was captured by the Russian military on April 2, 2022, prosecutors said.
