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On the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, Japan's foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya handed Sergei Lavrov a démarche demanding the immediate release of a Japanese journalist detained in Sakhalin on suspicion of espionage, and called on Russia to act for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
Aziz KarimovHokkaido Shimbun correspondent Yuki Imai was detained by the FSB on Sakhalin on suspicion of espionage and transferred to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow. Tokyo demands consular access and rejects the accusations; Moscow claims it caught the journalist 'red-handed.' The detention occurred against the backdrop of cooling relations between the two countries and the dispute over the Kuril Islands.
Sevara AzamovaRussia's FSB detained Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent Yuki Imai in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk as he attempted to fly out of Russia. He is accused of collecting data on mobilized men and volunteers on the Kuril Islands on assignment from Japanese intelligence. On October 13, the Lefortovo court in Moscow imposed detention in custody as a pretrial measure; the espionage charge carries up to 20 years in prison.
Otabek Yusupov
