On Friday, Lady Sylvia Hermon, who chairs the party's North Down constituency association, said she did not want to comment until she had been officially informed of the disciplinary committee's decision.
He writes of "the nobility of the trade of reporting the truth, the better to inform the readers" and of his faith in "the contribution of vibrant comment to a raucous and well-informed democracy".
Bolshoi spokeswoman Katerina Novikova told the AP that Filin had been informed about Dmitrichenko's detention, but said the theater would not comment until after the trial.