Twenty open coffins and Videes carried by the team of reporters Without Borders (RSF) invested, Thursday, February 20, at the start of the morning, the Place de la République in Paris. A symbolic action aimed at denouncing the detention of 19 Ukrainian journalists, a few days before the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, on February 24, 2022. Detained in the occupied Ukrainian territories or in the Russian Federation, they were accused of “Terrorism or spying on fallacious bases”denounces the NGO. The imprisonment of eight of them Receive even to before 2022in the years following the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
A closed coffin, with a wreath of flowers and candles, is in front of the others to pay tribute to the journalist Victoria Roshchyna, died in detention on September 19, 2024, at the age of 27 years. Five months later, Moscow still refuses to restore the body of the deceased and to reveal the circumstances of his death. “A Ukrainian journalist was declared dead in prison in Russia. Nineteen others are still locked up there. Should we wait for their death to act? »»can we read on the long banner.
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Source: Lemonde