That's ironic because Meduza is apparently based in Latvia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meduza:
> Meduza (Russian: Медуза, lit. 'jellyfish')[2][3] is a Russian- and English-language independent[7] news website, based in Latvia.
[1] https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-invasion-russia-passes-la...
Yes, sure, in a democratic country it's absolutely impossible that a person reporting things that disagree with the official govt line may spend even a single day in prison.
Julian Assange can confirm.
I recently read the book "American Muckraker" by James O'Keefe. It has quite a few examples of that in modern US.
Based on unconfirmed rumors, similar things do happen here in Montenegro as well.
If he made an effort to truly remain separate from the sourcing of information, as most reputable reporting agencies do, then he’d likely not be in prison.
Look at the release of the Pentagon Papers.
It's relocated to Latvia and founded by a former main editor of lenta.ru (a pretty big news agency) after it was raided by government.