Head of Russian election monitoring group to be kept in jail until vote is over - court


  • World
  • Wednesday, 06 Dec 2023

Co-chairman of Golos non-governmental organisation Grigory Melkonyants speaks on the phone at his office in Moscow, Russia March 13, 2018. Picture taken March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Osborn

LONDON (Reuters) - A court in Moscow ruled to keep the head of an election monitoring group who has alleged widespread ballot fraud in the past in prison until mid-April next year, a month after Russia is expected to hold its next presidential vote.

Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the non-governmental Golos group, which the justice ministry has labelled "a foreign agent", was detained in August before regional elections and accused of cooperating with an "undesirable organisation," something he denies.

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