A journalist facing criminal charges for publicly supporting priests who have opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has become the latest addition to Russia’s Federal Watch List on religious grounds.

Kseniya Luchenko, an Orthodox Russian native, is currently based outside Russia, where she remotely runs a Telegram channel reporting on the Russian Orthodox Church and expressing vocal support for priests who have opposed the war in Ukraine.

Earlier this year, Luchenko was placed on the country’s Watch List after a criminal investigation was launched over the “public dissemination” of what authorities claimed was “false information on the use of the Armed Forces,” according to Norwegian human rights organization Forum 18.

Luchenko joins a list of individuals on the Federal Watch List who have been charged for exercising their “freedom of religion or belief,” according to the organization.

The report notes that 44 of those on the Federal List face religious-based charges, including Christians, Muslim Nursi readers, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Also included are individuals wanted by countries allied with Russia, such as Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The Interior Ministry did not respond to questions regarding the list.

Yuliya Burenina, of the National Central Bureau (NCB) for Interpol within Russia’s Interior Ministry, declined to comment on the situation or the issuance of several international arrest requests, stating she was not “authorized to speak to journalists.”

While Luchenko has not been issued an Interpol Red Notice, she faces the risk of imprisonment and prosecution if she is found in Russia or in one of its allied countries.

Human rights activists, including Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, say the Federal Watch List reflects a broader “global pattern of transnational repression.”