An editor with video news agency Ruptly has been detained while filming a police raid on Russia’s Sputnik outlet
The Azerbaijani authorities have detained a journalist with Ruptly, the Russian video news agency has confirmed. The journalist was filming outside the office of Russia’s Sputnik Azerbaijan in Baku, which was raided by police earlier on Monday.
Ruptly editor Aytekin Guseynova spent some 20 minutes filming outside Sputnik’s office, the agency said. Contact was lost with her just as she reported finishing her work, with her mother confirming her arrest later in the day, it added.
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