Newspaper editor released on bail

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PEN International

10 September 2008

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(WiPC/IFEX) – Nikolai Andrushchenko, co-founder and editor of the newspaper “Novy Peterburg”, was freed on bail according to a decision taken by the Dzerzhinski District Court of St Petersburg, on 20 May 2008.

(WiPC/IFEX) – Nikolai Andrushchenko, co-founder and editor of the newspaper “Novy Peterburg”, was freed on bail according to a decision taken by the Dzerzhinski District Court of St Petersburg, on 20 May 2008.

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