Judge of the Kiev District Court of Simferopol Anton Tsikurenko made a decision to extend the period of detention for journalist Vladislav Esipenko. He is accused of " By court decision, the journalist will be kept in a pre-trial detention center at least until July 11.

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It is noted that Esipenko's lawyer Alexey Ladin said after the hearing that the court did not take into account the arguments of the defense about changing the measure of restraint to house arrest, although the defense provided an address in Simferopol for this..

They want to appeal against the decision of the court in the so-called Supreme Court of Crimea.

Journalist Vladislav Esipenko was rudely detained by Russian security forces wearing masks on March 10. They forcibly dragged him into an unmarked car and illegally detained him in a basement in the Balaklava district of Sevastopol for two days..

Later, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said that FSB officers brutally mocked and tortured him.