The head of the human rights Council of the Russian Federation urges the Ukrainian Ombudsman to help you find Andrew Stenina
The head of Council under the President of the Russian Federation on the development of civil society, Mikhail Fedotov, has applied to the Commissioner of human rights in Ukraine Ms. Valeriya Lutkovska a petition to help discover a photographer MIA " Russia today " Andrew Stenina, informs the human rights Council on the last working day of the week.
Stenin, who worked for Eastern Ukraine, was unavailable from 5 August. Sources reported that he could be detained by the Ukrainian security forces, but Kiev was not confirmed. The Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine August eleven accepted the message About the missing journalist. On the next day the Ukrainian authorities for the first time told me that they know the fate Stenina: Advisor to the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Geraschenko told in interview to the Latvian radio Baltkom that the photographer detained by Ukrainian special services and suspected of " aiding terrorists ". Later Gerashchenko said he " misinterpreted ": he just assumed that Stenin arrested, but the right information about it there. Baltkom said that has a record of interview and gave it to the media.
" in this regard, I ask You, dear Valeria Vladimirovna, to assist in locating Andrew Stenina and to take steps within Your power to return him home, " said a statement posted on the Internet office of the HRC.
first Russian Ombudsman Ella Pamfilova turned to his Ukrainian colleague with a request to help find the location Stenina, and to facilitate his return to the Russian Federation. Lutkovska, as stated later Pamfilova, sent requests to the competent authorities of the country with the request to assist in the investigation of missing Stenina.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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