Several reporters were recently detained by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine while investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The Guardian reported Monday that Paul Hansen and Jan Lewenhagen — Swedish journalists working for Dagens Nyheter — were at the morgue in Donetsk when they were detained and held in another building with seven other journalists. They were released three hours later.
Journalist Anna Nemtsova was also detained and let go. In an essay for the Daily Beast, she wrote that she and Time magazine correspondent Simon Shuster had also gone to the morgue looking for corpses from the crash, …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
