Dmitry Peskov insisted that Safronov's arrest was not related to his work as a journalist. — Reuters pic
“Watching arrest after arrest of Russian journalists – it’s starting to look like a concerted campaign against #MediaFreedom,” she tweeted.Earlier that day the FSB security agency, the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, arrested a respected former journalist, Ivan Safronov, 30, on suspicion of state treason.
The FSB investigators believe that the Czech intelligence acts under the guidance of the United States, Smirnov told AFP.