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The arrest of journalist Kirill Vyshinsky in Ukraine raises much concern, according to EC Commissioner for human rights Dunja Mijatovic. In her words, restrictions on journalists’ work in any country of the European Council is a reason for deep concern, RIA Novosti informs.
“Restrictions on the journalists’ work evoke my deep concern in this particular and in other similar cases when journalists are subject to criminal proceedings in some countries of the Council of Europe.” Mijatovic claimed.
Note that in the early morning on May 15 News Agency RIA Novosti-Ukraine Editor-in-Chief Kirill Vyshinsky was roughly detained in the yard of his house. The Ukrainian authorities accuse him of the state treason and support of the Donbass Republic. At present, he is arrested. In case he is found guilty, the journalist would get up to 15 years of imprisonment.
Besides, the agency offices were searched and the employees were interrogated for long hours.
The wife of the prisoner advised that her husband’s health condition requires ongoing medical treatment. No Russian right defenders are admitted to Vyshinsky. The Ukrainian lawyer says that the journalist is good and well.
The Russian State Duma demanded the Ukrainian authorities to set Kirill Vyshinsky free.
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