Two Dutch journalists were arrested in Moscow on Saturday morning. It concerns a journalist and a cameraman from an NOS crew, NOS reports.
Both have now been released. A total of more than twenty journalists were reportedly arrested, including a number of foreign reporters from the French news agency AFP and someone from the German magazine Der Spiegel.
According to the NOS, the journalists reported on a demonstration on Red Square in the Russian capital. It was held by wives of soldiers. They want their men to return from the front in Ukraine. The NOS reports that reporters and cameramen were taken away in arrest vans and had to show their papers at a police station. Most of them have reportedly been released by now.