“UNIAN correspondent Dmitry Khiluk was captured by the Russians in March 2022 and exported to Russia.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
UNIAN correspondent Dmitry Khiluk was captured by the Russians in March 2022 and exported to Russia.
Russia deported at least 19 Ukrainian journalists / photos of ua.depositphotos.comThe International Human Rights Organization “Reporters Without Borders” (RSF) has filed a complaint against Russia with the International Criminal Court for the deportation of 19 Ukrainian journalists. As noted in the message on the website of the organization, Russia deported at least 19 Ukrainian journalists into its territory or other occupied areas of Ukraine.
It is emphasized that all these people were “arbitrarily arrested by Russian occupation troops.”
“Reporters without borders” condemn this military crime and filed a ninth complaint against Russia with the International Criminal Court (ICS) and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine three years after the start of a large -scale invasion of Ukraine, “the statement reads.
It is noted that as of today, the complaints of RSF have initiated or contributed to 14 investigation of crimes against journalists by the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office.
“Russian occupation troops hunt independent Ukrainian journalists, arrest them and deport, partially, to their territory. To date, 18 of them are still in custody, and one journalist is still considered missing. Life, “Antoine Bernard, Director of Advocacy and Assistance RSF, said.
It is noted that out of 19 journalists who are currently imprisoned by the Kremlin, all were deported from arrest to other occupied regions of Ukraine or to Russia. At least 14 of them are now held in the Russian territory.
“Despite the fact that Moscow refuses to confirm the places of maintenance of some journalists, RSF found that several of them were taken to Russia at one time. Among them, Dmitry Khiluk, a journalist of the Ukrainian UNIAN news agency, arrested in March 2022 and deported to the Vladimir region, What a few hundred kilometers east of Moscow, “the organization reminded.
In addition, it is, including Anastasia Glukhovsk, a journalist of the local news site “Ria-Melitopol”, which was arrested by Russian occupation troops on August 20, 2023 in Melitopol with at least three of their colleagues. According to the information obtained by the RSF, after detention in the Melitopol district, it was taken to the Rostov region of Russia.
The report states that on February 20, the RSF held a protest in Paris, demanding the immediate and unconditional release of journalists imprisoned in inhumane conditions in Russia and in the occupied territories of Ukraine: deprived medical care, isolated, sometimes reduced to slavery.
“During the RSF action, the Kremlin was asked for the fate of Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist who was declared dead in prison, as said in a single letter from the Russian authorities to her family. Five months after this statement, Moscow refuses to provide an explanation. And her body has not yet been returned, “the organization emphasized.
Captured Ukrainian journalistsAs reported by UNIAN, Dmitry Khiluk, together with his father, was abducted by Russian invaders in the first days of March 2022 during the occupation of the Kiev region. Subsequently, the father was released, and Dmitry was illegally taken to Russia and still kept.
In October, Ukraine managed to return from the Russian captivity a human rights activist, co -founder of the Center for Human Rights ZMina Maxim Butkevich.
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