The participants of the forum " Tavrida " held an action in support fotokor Stenina
Participants of international youth forum " Tavrida-2014 " in Crimea held an action in support of the disappeared in Ukraine photojournalist MIA " Russia today " Andrei Stenina, say the organizers of the rally.
Stenin was working in Donetsk, Slavyansk and other cities of Eastern Ukraine. Last week, an informed source in the East of Ukraine said that he was captured by Ukrainian law-enforcers and inaccurate data that is placed in the security Service of Ukraine in Kiev. The management of the SBU in Zaporozhye region claimed that he had not detained fotokor and that in their region there is no any captured authorized Russian media.
" About one thousand young men from different cities of Russia, who arrived in Crimea to participate in international youth forum " Tavrida-2014 ", joined the action in support of the disappeared in Ukraine of the Russian journalist. Activists of the event for a few minutes and put on eye headbands with the inscription #FreeAndrew, once again drawing the attention of the international brotherhood on the problem of security correspondents on the square of Ukraine ", - is informed in the report.
first Commissioner for human rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova addressed his Ukrainian counterpart with a request to help to find out the whereabouts Stenina and promote the return to the Russian Federation. Also, the OSCE representative on freedom of the media Mijatovic has called for the immediate release of the press photographer, noting that " the dangerous practice of detention and abduction media workers unacceptable and must end."
international youth gathering " Tavrida "has opened on Sunday in the Crimea. Its main focus is the historical-Patriotic. In the forum participate About 1, 7 thousand people in the age of 35 from Russia and the other 50 countries, and among them of Israel, Serbia, Hungary and China.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. According to the data gathered by the mission of the Commissariat of the United Nations on human rights and the world health organization, from mid-April to 26 July in Ukraine killed 1129 civilians, 3442 wounded. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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