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Russian FSB threaten and beat imprisoned Crimean journalist and human rights defender Iryna Danilovych

The Russian FSB who abducted and tortured Iryna Danilovych in April this year see no need to deny that the charges used to imprison the Crimean civic journalist, nurse and rights defender are fabricated. Quite the contrary

Collaborators with Russian state terrorism should be thrown out of International Federation of Journalists

There has been total silence from the main Russian press agencies about Russia’s bombing of a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, and the Russian Union of Journalists never reports anything that could annoy the Kremlin

Ukrainian seized and sentenced in Russian-occupied Crimea for pro-Ukrainian social media comments

A 21-year-old Crimean has received an 18-month suspended sentence in Russian-occupied Crimea for “pro-Ukrainian slogans” on social media

Russian FSB threaten to kill Ukrainian civic journalist and force her into signing blank ‘confessions’

Iryna Danilovych was held incommunicado for 12 days, with the first eight secretly held and placed under massive pressure by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

22 journalists killed since Russia began its total war against Ukraine

Russia committed at least 243 crimes against journalists and the media in the first two months after its 2022 invasion, with these including killings, abductions, torture, threats and attacks on TV towers

Civic journalist Iryna Danilovych disappears after being seized in Russian-occupied Crimea

Iryna Danilovych, a Ukrainian nurse and civic journalist reporting on medical issues in occupied Crimea, has disappeared after being seized by Russian-controlled enforcement officers on 29 April

Russia brings grotesque propaganda to Berdiansk after Ukrainian journalists refuse to collaborate

A day after Russian invaders held a large number of Ukrainian journalists hostage, trying in vain to get them to collaborate, the occupying forces in Berdiansk have come up with stunningly feeble propaganda to try to justify their invasion

Russia installs its propaganda TV after seizing Kherson and imposes 15-year sentences for reporting its invasion of Ukraine

Russia has effectively silenced all sources of objective information about its war against Ukraine at home, and is swiftly moving to seize control of the media where it has seized Ukrainian cities

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