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Moscow court rejects the appeal concerning imprisonment of illegally detained Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko.

Sushchenko’s lawyer Mark Feygin wrote on his twitter that the municipal court of Moscow rejected the appeal. Mark Feygin told journalists that Sushchenko is stripped of basic rights. His jailers systematically refuse to let him make phone calls or see relatives, a priest or Ukrainian consul.

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