{"id":172523,"date":"2025-10-01T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172523\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:01:10","slug":"russia-extends-jailing-of-french-cyclist-until-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172523\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia extends jailing of French cyclist until November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0e78025_upload-1-hbgj67pishw1-0e78025-upload-1-d9gz2fixldb6-sofiane-2-68c04cde86a4b684232308.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"664\" height=\"443\"\/>      INSTAGRAM SCREENSHOT @SOFIANESHL                        <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">A Russian court on Tuesday, September 30, ordered a French cyclist detained during a cross-continental trip to be held in jail until at least November 3, his lawyer told Agence France-Presse (AFP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Sofiane Sehili, 44, was arrested in early September on suspicion of crossing the Russian border illegally while attempting to complete the fastest endurance cycle trip from Lisbon to Vladivostok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">He had a valid e-visa but allegedly tried to cross the border at a checkpoint only permitted for Russian and Chinese citizens, and then at another where foot crossings are forbidden, a Russian official told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">A court in Russia&#8217;s far eastern Primorsky Krai region extended his pre-trial detention until at least November 3, his lawyer Alla Kushnir told AFP. &#8220;I will definitely file an appeal,&#8221; against the prolongation, she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Sehili is one of several Westerners to have been detained in Russia since Moscow launched its Ukraine offensive in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"author__detail\">  Le Monde with AFP  <\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/syndication\/\" class=\"reuse__content\" title=\"Reuse this content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuse this content<\/a>      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INSTAGRAM SCREENSHOT @SOFIANESHL A Russian court on Tuesday, September 30, ordered a French cyclist detained during a cross-continental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-172523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}