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Russia: outlet fined $338,000 under the foreign agents law
A Moscow court fined the magazine The New Times 22.3 million rubles, about $338,000, for a paperwork lapse under Russia's foreign agents law, a sum its editor said was designed to force the outlet to close.
Lawsuits against the press · Stage Pressure · Head of government Vladimir Putin · Ongoing
Malta: minister orders reporter's bank account frozen
A month after journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia published reporting on members of Malta's government, the economy minister had her bank account frozen, one of dozens of legal actions she faced before she was killed in a car bombing in Octo…
Lawsuits against the press · Stage Pressure · Head of government Joseph Muscat · Unknown