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Crimean journalist faces 5-year sentence for ‘separatism’

Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

Mykola Semena, a Crimean freelance journalist has been formally charged with making ‘calls to violate the Russian Federation’s territorial integrity’ and could face a 5-year sentence. The charges are under an article of the Russian Criminal Code introduced in May 2014, and are, as feared, being used to try to silence pro,test over Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea. …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

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