Moscow's Investigative Committee has opened a criminal investigation into an editor at a news outlet that has regularly angered the authorities. The Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said in a statement that it had opened a probe of journalist Anna Loiko on suspicion of "publicly justifying terrorism." Loiko works with the online news outlet SOTA, which publishes mostly on Telegram. Investigators said in a statement that an article written by Loiko in 2021 about the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Russia, justified the ideology of an organization Moscow regards as "terrorists."
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