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Journalists Say Press Freedom Has Suffered in Crimea


The Committee to Protect Journalists says it is alarmed by the media environment in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine one year ago.

The New York-based global watchdog group said in a statement published on its website Thursday that the climate for press freedom had steadily deteriorated in Crimea since March 2014.

“Journalists covering the annexation of Crimea have been detained, interrogated and attacked, while news outlets have been raided and taken off the air,” CPJ noted. It said other journalists had been refused registration by Russia’s state media regulator, Roskomnadzor.

CPJ quoted Ukrainian journalists as saying Crimean …read more

Source: Voice of America

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