The FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea has announced the completion of their ‘investigative measures’ with respect to Ukrainian journalist, Vladislav Yesypenko, who was arrested on March 10 shortly after he and a friend lay flowers at the monument to the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. Yesypenko has now been able to describe the ‘measures’ applied while he was held without access to independent lawyers. They differ little from those used against other Ukrainians seized and tortured for televised ‘confessions.’ However, this is the first time, that a journalist in occupied Crimea on a work assignment has been arrested and detained on almost certainly trumped-up charges.
OP-ED
Halya Coynash: FSB torture Ukrainian 84 years after NKVD killed his grandfather
Russian police officers stand guard in front of the headquarters of the FSB security services in central Moscow on July 3, 2020.
