Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) (Video Release)
#UKRAINE: Imprisonment, forced confessions, slavery…What happened to the 4 journalists who disappeared after a Russian roundup in Melitopol? We investigated and managed to find them
20 August 2023 marked a turning point in the occupation of Melitopol. At the crack of dawn, at least four journalists and news content creators were escorted away by men in military uniform, as documented by RSF. Then, for weeks, silence…
In October 2023, their arrest was confirmed by Russian propaganda videos in which the journalists were forced to make false confessions – yet no information on their fate or whereabouts has been released since. Russia is holding these media workers illegally, moving them from prison to prison in conditions that are much closer to enforced disappearance than legitimate detention.
In this video, discover the way RSF retraced the paths of their imprisonment.
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