Week-ending 24 April 2020
Opera Singer Arrested For Initiating Anti-Government Rallies In Russia’s North Ossetia
Authorities in Russia’s North Caucasus region of North Ossetia have arrested opera singer Vadim Cheldiyev for initiating anti-government rallies. Cheldiyev’s lawyer, Batraz Kulchiyev, told Current Time on April 21 that his client had launched a hunger strike to protest his two-month pretrial arrest. RFE/RL, 21 April 2020