Freedom is not impunity

In Kyiv, a performance "Russia put on the conveyor of reprisals against Ukrainian journalists was held near the Russian embassy, ​​the Grana correspondent reports. The action was dedicated to the International UN Day of the termination of impunity for crimes against journalists

Activists demanded from Russia to free Ukrainian journalists Roman Suschenko and Nikolai Semen, as well as to close criminal cases fabricated against them.

Participants of the performance in Vladimir Putin masks and with the tablets on the chest “Investigative Committee”, “Prosecutor's Office”, “Center“ E ”,“ FSB ”handed over to each other“ Folders with criminal cases ”. They wrote the names of the conclusions of Ukrainian citizens held in the Russian places. Another participant with the inscription“ Judge ”and the Russian emblem, without looking at the packets of the press.

Other participants in the action, already with open persons, picked up the Russian embassy. In their hands they held posters in English: "I am also a journalist. Freedom to Roman Suschenko!"

Shooting Alexei Chernyshev:

On September 30, Suschenko was detained in Moscow, but it became known only on October 2, when Suschenko accidentally discovered members of the Moscow ONK in pre-trial detention center-2. The next day, the FSB center said that they were detained "during a spy campaign."

Suschenko "deliberately collected a state secret of information about the activities of the Armed Forces and troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, the leak of which abroad could damage the defense capabilities of the state," the FSB press release said. According to the special services, Suschenko is a personnel employee of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and has the title of Colonel. The FSB opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Article 276 of the Criminal Code (espionage).

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine denies that Suschenko is an employee of the department. “We do not confirm this information. We consider it another fake,” the press service said. The Ukrinform, in turn, noted that the detention of Suschenko, who has been working in the agency since 2002, and his own correspondent in France - since 2010, is "planned provocation."

Simferopol journalist Semyon is under a subscription about the loss of the separatism case. Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (public calls for separatism through the media), he faces up to five years in the colony. Rosfinmonitoring included a journalist in the list of terrorists and extremists . Semen does not admit sane guilt.

The journalist is charged with the spelling of the blockade - the necessary first step towards the liberation of Crimea , published in Crimea. Realiy on September 11, 2015, announced a few days earlier than the civil blockade of the peninsula. The text is signed by Valentin Gonchar, Political Science; For what reason it is attribute to Semyon is unknown.

On April 19, Semyon was a search with the seizure of paper and electronic media of information. At the end of the search, the journalist was interrogated as a suspect. On April 29, he was charged .