OSCE commented on the detention of the editor-in-chief of Sputnik Lithuania

“I recall that OSCE participating States need to facilitate the movement of journalists in the region,” Desir wrote on Twitter.

Qasem was detained upon arrival at Vilnius airport with the phrase “threat to national security”.

Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Russia (UFR) Vladimir Solovyov in a conversation with RT condemned the detention of the editor-in-chief of Sputnik Lithuania.

Later it became known that Kasim got into the database of the Ukrainian site “Peacemaker”.