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 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic said on May 19 she urged the Ukrainian authorities to release LifeNews reporters detained in Ukraine.

“On 18 May Ukrainian military forces detained Marat Saichenko and
Oleg Sidyakin, journalists with Russian online portal LifeNews, and
reportedly handed them over to law enforcement authorities. In a letter
to Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, Mijatovic
expressed her concern and asked the authorities to release the
journalists and thoroughly investigate the case,” the OSCE said in a
statement.

It has been reported that Ukrainian servicemen detained LifeNews
reporters in Kramatorsk on late May 18. The Ukrainian authorities said
they accused the journalists of terrorism.