Prosecutors said the unidentified man confessed to the crime and was fully cooperating with police.
RFE/RL has called for an investigation and for Bulgarian authorities to condemn the incident.
Country’s independent media has been gagged in recent years by bans, shutdowns, and the sacking of prominent reporters; now social media have become a target
Iranian state television report did not say when or where Sharmahd had been detained
Trevor Reed was found guilty of assaulting two police officers, a charge that he refused to admit
Ivan Safronov has denied the charges against him; he was arrested July 7 amid allegations that he had passed secret information to the Czech Republic
According to US prosecutors, Yevgeny Nikulin in 2012 stole the usernames and passwords of tens of millions of social media users to access their accounts
The Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, where the incident occurred, is among the sites now monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency
Kremlin says amendments necessary for country's stability and security
Measure announced by President Hassan Rouhani was accompanied by news that hard-hit provinces would be allowed to reimpose restrictions aimed at countering the impact of the virus
The parade was orinally slated to take place May 9 to commemorate the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II
Family say prisoner was recently accused of 'dancing in prison during days of mourning' a revered seventh-century figure in Shi'ite Islam
The Russian leader had postponed the traditional May 9 event due to the coronavirus pandemic; new date is June 24
Group says more than 300 people were killed by Iran's security forces in November
Article estimated that the real number of people who have died in Russia from COVID-19 could be 70 percent higher than reported by the country's health officials
Volunteers have come forward to breastfeed the children. It's still unclear who was behind the atrocity
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed to use all means available to extend the ban beyond October
Report says a growing number of leaders in Central and Eastern Europe have dropped even the pretense that they play by the rules of democracy
The editor in chief and a social-media administrator of Iran’s semiofficial ILNA news agency were detained last week over a cartoon deemed insulting to the country's leadership
Agricultural ministry says Russian cutoff affected shipments of wheat, corn, rye, barley and meslin, which is a mixture of wheat and rye
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