More than 25 Ukrainian journalists are in captivity in the Russian Federation

More than 25 Ukrainian journalists are in Russian captivity.

This was said by the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech, People’s Deputy from the “Voice” faction, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn.

He noted that one of the priorities of his work as the head of the committee is the protection of journalists’ rights.

“And here are two large blocks. The first is the search for mechanisms to activate the release of imprisoned journalists. We have more than 25 journalists currently in captivity according to the latest data. These are not combatants, these are journalists who were doing their job, and according to the civilized rules of warfare, should not have been captured in principle, but the fact is the fact. We understand how uncivilized Russia is and has generally trampled on any human rights,” Yurchyshyn said.

According to him, in this matter, on the one hand, it is necessary to maximally involve the international community in the release of journalists, and on the other hand, “to prepare, together with monitoring organizations, together with journalist associations, a component on responsibility in the International Criminal Court for crimes against freedom of speech, for crimes against journalists, presumably, the strengthening of such responsibility due to the clarification of a number of concepts in Ukrainian legislation.”