

The nine were previously sentenced to one year in prison on a charge of "propaganda activity against the system through the promotion of Baha'iism." The Iran Human Rights Organization says Iranian authorities have installed electronic tags on nine Baha'i followers and is restricting their movement in another sign the government is increasing pressure on the group.Īccording to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the nine Baha'i members are allowed to travel within a radius of 500 meters of their residence for 304 days, effective August 2.

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The damage from the fire is estimated at 10 billion rubles ($163 million). Ozon also said it had removed the goods that had been in the warehouse at the time of the fire from its online marketplace, adding in a statement that customers will be refunded for lost orders and sellers will receive compensation for damaged or lost goods. The prosecutor-general's office of the Moscow region said that an investigation had been launched. Photos posted on social media showed a plume of dark smoke billowing from the roof of the warehouse.Īrson is considered the likeliest cause of the fire, the emergency services source told RIA Novosti. More than 1,000 employees were evacuated from the premises as nearly 100 firefighters battled the blaze using dozens of emergency response vehicles and helicopters. The company said the fire broke out in a standalone block at its fulfilment center near Istra, a village about 40 kilometers northwest of Moscow. Ozon, one of the largest companies in Russia’s e-commerce sector, said all employees had been safely evacuated from the warehouse and none had been injured. The fire caused the roof of the fulfillment center, where employees process orders placed by Ozon customers, to collapse in an area about the size of three soccer fields, according to the reports.Įmergencies Ministry official Alexander Chupryan was quoted by Interfax as saying no one had been killed, while 11 people had sought medical assistance. She is survived by her parents and an adult son.Ī major fire broke out on August 3 at the Moscow-area warehouse of online retailer Ozon, destroying the building and causing at least one death, according to news reports.Ī source in the emergency services was quoted as saying in addition to the fatality, two people remained unaccounted for and 13 were injured, including two who were hospitalized. Before that she worked at a leading television channel in Ukraine. Hyrych, born in 1967, began working for RFE/RL in February 2018. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who met with Guterres in Kyiv barely an hour earlier, has condemned the missile strikes and called for a "corresponding powerful reaction." Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram on April 29 that one body had been retrieved from the rubble and another 10 people had been injured in the strikes. The attack was an assault on the Ukrainian state, the Ukrainian people, and on “those who are doing nothing more than to try to spread the truth,” Price said, noting that Hyrych unfortunately “is not the first journalist to lose his or her life in this fight.” The United States is still trying to ascertain whether there was a military target for the strike or whether Russia may simply have been “trying to send a message to the international community,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said on MSNBC. Ukrainian officials have not commented on whether the factory had been hit during the attack. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed "long-range, high-precision" missiles had hit factory buildings in Kyiv of Ukrainian rocket manufacturer Artem on April 28.
