MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Tuesday ordered former journalist Ivan Safronov to be kept in custody until May 7 on charges of treason, the court’s press officer said.
Safronov, who left journalism and began working at Russia’s space agency in May, was detained by security agents outside his flat on July 7 and accused of passing military secrets to the Czech Republic in 2017. He denies the charge.
(Reporting by Maria Vasilyeva; Writing by Andrey Ostroukh and Tom Balmforth; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
