This was announced by the head of RT France Ksenia Fedorova.
“Our journalists will be able to return their passports, having paid a fine for violating the so-called special zone on the border with Belarus, only after 48 hours, since before that they were forbidden to appear there,” she said in her Telegram channel.
Fedorova said that correspondent David Kalifa went live on RT France shortly after his release and told the details of what happened.
For nine hours, the journalists were not handcuffed or given food, she said.
According to Kalifa, the police harshly demanded that they and the cameraman stop filming, handcuffed them and took them to the police station.
He also said that if the translator hadn't arrived quickly, they would have had to spend 48 hours in the cell.
After that, he and the operator were interrogated in turn, each interrogation lasted about an hour.
Then they were brought to trial.
Also, Khalifa and Demory were not given the opportunity to contact a lawyer, explaining that the "process is accelerated."
On November 15, it became known that the RT France film crew was detained at the Polish-Belarusian border.
Later, a representative of the police of the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland said that the correspondent and operator of RT France was taken to the court of the Polish city of Sokolka.
They were subsequently sentenced to a fine.
The secretary general of the journalistic trade union FASAP-FO, Françoise Chazot, said in an interview with RT that she considers the detention of the RT France film crew in Poland as intimidation.