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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday that it had arrested a Japanese journalist in the Sakhalin region on suspicion of espionage, the state-run Tass news agency reported.
The FSB alleged that the correspondent for the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk bureau of the Japanese newspaper “Hokkaido Shimbun” collected and stored information about Russia’s defence capabilities for Japanese intelligence. It said the information could be used against Russia’s security.
The agency said it had opened a criminal case against the journalist. Moscow’s Lefortovo District Court ordered his arrest while the investigation continues.
