It also became clear that most of the photos taken during the search of his apartment were false (according to lawyers, eight out of nine photos were taken at a different location) and serious suspicions had arisen that the journalist’s arrest was a form of torture, demonstration punishment, and the drugs were not his.<\/p>\n
It turned out that Ivan Golunov, who wrote a lot about the Moscow City Hall and those who got rich illegally and who discovered corruption schemes seriously hurt some of the subjects of his stories. And those some went to work, harshly and negatively hindering his work.<\/p>\n
The journalist is unprotected in front of the power machine. And his defense is almost entirely connected with the desire to make the case as public and as massive as possible.<\/p>\n
The investigative journalist proposed a hypothesis<\/a> and stated that the reason for his illegal and explicit arrest was an investigation into the criminal acts of high-ranking security officials. The high-ranking officials control the Russian market for mourning services<\/a> (it\u2019s almost a monopoly), and Golunov has written about it, seriously damaging their shadow business.<\/p>\n As a result of the massive wave from the public and the journalistic community, there were protests<\/a> in Moscow for a few days \u201cI am Ivan Golunov, I am a journalist, arrest me.\u201d Though 20 protesters were apprehended, the flow of people forced the forces to retreat and answer the questions that had evidently come up in society.<\/p>\n Finally, the delayed examination ruled out<\/a> the possibility of the reporter\u2019s interaction with drugs, and the journalist was placed under house arrest as a form of detention.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can be next,\u201d was the most frequently encountered texts during these four days. Numerous celebrities in social networks voiced support for Golunov, who quickly became the newest symbol of freedom of expression. <\/p>\n The beaten, injured professional has awakened the most important question now, and what happens when it\u2019s the next professional\u2019s turn?<\/p>\n Three major private media outlets, Vedomosti, Kommersant and RBC posted on their front pages today. \u201cI\/We are Ivan Golunov,\u201d as a sign of solidarity.<\/p>\n This is perhaps one of the unique cases when the Russian media field (with its professional segment) united, without hesitating to stand behind their colleague who fell victim to police and investigative work.<\/p>\n On June 12, a protest march<\/a> will be held in support of Ivan Golunov, whose participants will walk carrying the texts of the journalist\u2019s investigations, and will continue their individual demonstrations in front of the Ministry of Interior.<\/p>\n Journalists and media organizations promised to expose those who ordered the arrest of the journalist. And they are already doing that<\/a>. The power-shadow system usually retreats<\/a> when the public is not indifferent.<\/p>\n Nune Hakhverdyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The arrest of Russian investigative journalist and correspondent for the online newspaper \u201cMeduza,\u201d Ivan Golunov, received a great deal of reaction among organizations and individuals concerned with journalistic and human rights issues. Ivan Golunov was detained on June 6 in Moscow on suspicion of possession and sales of drugs. According to the police, they discovered Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-nune-hakhverdyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u053b\u057e\u0561\u0576](\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/hX_y-_Im__hfRpody0gOUEr6rlgm8chQg6VKCaV34-uIBJyJpfge6yYtYr3rXRaF0np1gzPM-TVuywQK1dYV4ryZDlXxy8pfXBbti6qAtvtv4YNglXN_5isoopEouycEi10b3SdI\")