Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has commented on the detention in Riga of Sputnik Lithuania’s chief editor Marat Kasem.
“We are clarifying the details of what happened. We proceed from the fact that this is a violation by Latvia of all international obligations in the field of freedom of speech, protection of journalists’ rights, inviolability of rights and freedoms,” Zakharova said on Radio Sputnik.
She recalled that Kasem has for many years been the object of harassment and persecution “on the part of a number of Baltic States.
“The international community must do everything possible to bring these overzealous regimes back into the fold of the law,” she concluded.
Earlier, Kasem was detained in Riga by Latvian special services.
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