Japan’s Prime Minister Rejects Espionage Allegations Against Japanese Journalist Detained in Russia...

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Japan’s Foreign Ministry presented the Russian ambassador with a note of protest over the detention of a Japanese journalist on Sakhalin. Maria Zakharova said that this arrest was not the first such case and that “something like this happened recently.” Japan’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russian Ambassador Nikolai Nozdrev and demanded that he provide…

Japan’s prime minister rejected the espionage allegations against a Japanese journalist detained in Russia

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said there was “no truth” to the allegations against Imai Yuki, a journalist for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun, adding that “the details of the allegations remain unclear,” The Japan Times reports.

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said the Japanese authorities had still been unable to contact the journalist but were working to arrange a meeting “as soon as possible.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists called for the Japanese journalist’s immediate release. According to the committee, Russia is holding at least 30 journalists in custody in connection with their professional activities.

🔵On October 13, the FSB reported that it had detained a journalist for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun in the Sakhalin region on suspicion of espionage. A criminal case was opened against him under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code. The Lefortovo District Court in Moscow ordered that he be remanded in custody.

🔵The FSB claimed that he had been collecting information about the number of mobilized participants in the war in Ukraine stationed on the Kuril Islands.

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