{"id":196347,"date":"2022-07-26T00:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=196347"},"modified":"2022-07-26T00:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:59:38","slug":"russian-opposition-figure-detained-after-returning-to-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/russian-opposition-figure-detained-after-returning-to-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian opposition figure detained after returning to Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MOSCOW , Jul 25 (AP) \u2014 The Russian authorities on Monday briefly detained a liberal politician who recently returned to Moscow from abroad, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on dissent amid Moscow\u2019s military action in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leonid Gozman was detained after the Russian Interior Ministry issued a warrant for his arrest while investigating a criminal case against him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gozman has been accused of breaching the law that requires Russian citizens to notify authorities about a foreign citizenship or a residency permit. If found guilty, Gozman could be sentenced to a fine or community work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gozman notified the authorities about his Israeli citizenship but they claimed that he failed to do so within required time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gozman, a vocal critic of the Kremlin\u2019s campaign in Ukraine, left Russia when it started but returned in June in what he described as a \u201cmoral\u201d choice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian Justice Ministry has listed him as a \u201cforeign agent,\u201d a description that carries a strong pejorative meaning and implies additional government scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gozman was detained on the Moscow subway and taken to a police station. The politician was later released, but the criminal case against him is still pending, according to his lawyer, Mikhail Biryukov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW , Jul 25 (AP) \u2014 The Russian authorities on Monday briefly detained a liberal politician who recently returned to Moscow from abroad, the latest move in a relentless crackdown on dissent amid Moscow\u2019s military action in Ukraine. Leonid Gozman was detained after the Russian Interior Ministry issued a warrant for his arrest while investigating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}