The Polish Prosecutor’s Office asks to prolong the detention of journalist Pablo González, in prison since February

The Office of the Polish Public Prosecutor’s Office has asked to prolong the preventive detention of the Spanish journalist Pablo González, arrested on February 28. This request will be reviewed by the regional court of Przemysl (southeast) on August 23.

“The Lublin section of the Organized Crime and Corruption Department of the Polish Prosecutor’s Office presented the petition to the court to prolong Pablo González’s preventive detention,” the source told Efe.

In its statement, the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that the grounds for the petition are “a well-founded concern about procedural fraud, fear of concealment or escape and the fact that González is at risk of a high sentence if he is convicted.”

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The journalist, who worked for several media outlets and who also has Russian nationality, was arrested by the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW), which accuses González of working for Russian military intelligence (GRU).

In Przemyśl, a town on the Polish-Ukrainian border, González was covering the exodus of Ukrainian refugees to Poland during the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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He was initially detained for three months, a period that it was prolonged in early June for another three months. González’s defense appealed the decision, without a positive result.