The executive director and editor-in-chief of Russia's state-run news agency Sputnik in Azerbaijan have been issued four months of detention on Tuesday, following a Baku police raid of the Russian state media affiliate the day before, in what appears to be a fast-moving escalation between the two countries.
According to Azerbaijan’s authorities, they are being held on counts of fraud, illegal entrepreneurship and legalisation of property obtained by criminal means, Baku-based international news channel AnewZ reported.
