El Mundo newspaper's Russia correspondent has been kicked out of the country after authorities refused to renew his visa, the Spanish newspaper said today, denouncing a blow to press freedom. Javier Tholas, a correspondent in Moscow for 12 years, was “obliged to leave the country within 24 hours” yesterday, Wednesday, as he was not granted this document, which is “necessary” to work in Russia, the newspaper explains of Madrid. This decision was communicated to him by a civil servant, who threatened him with “trouble” if he did not leave before his work visa expired, said the newspaper, which recounted this expulsion of its correspondent in a two-page story in today's paper. According to El Mundo, in recent months Javier Tholas had been visited by police officers at his residence, who had asked him to “stop covering the demonstrations of the wives of Russian soldiers”, which are […]
Source: News Beast
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