Non-governmental organization, the Committee of protection of correspondents (CPJ) has called on the first day of the week for the immediate release of the abducted in Ukraine photojournalist MIA " Russia today " Andrei Stenina.

" We call for the immediate release of Andrei Stenina. All parties to the conflict in Ukraine are obliged to respect the role of correspondents and allow them to carry out their work in safety and without fear of retaliation, " said the CPJ program coordinator in the European Union and Central Asia Nina Ognianova.


" Freedom of the press in Ukraine, the most in the unstable South-Eastern regions, gradually deteriorated in recent months correspondents were detained, kidnapped, attacked them and forcibly deprived of life ", - said in the address of the organization.

Photojournalist " Russia today " Andrei Stenin, who worked in Donetsk, Slavyansk and other cities of Eastern Ukraine, does not communicate with the 5th of August. An informed source told Last news that the journalist was seized by Ukrainian law-enforcers and inaccurate data that is placed in the security service of Ukraine in Kiev. However, the management of the SBU in the Zaporozhye region claimed that he had not detained fotokor, and that in their region there is no any captured authorized Russian media.

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