Captured journalists mentioned in PACE resution for first time as separate category – MP

MP Yevheniia Kravchuk said this in a comment to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"For the first time, the resution mentions a separate category of civilian prisoners – these are captured journalists. There are more than thirty of them, at least those that have already been identified," Kravchuk said.

According to her, many pele in temporarily occupied territories pele become civilian journalists, and it is difficult to register them, since they are not officially media workers.

"Since there is no free media in these territories, they actually play the re of journalists, recording war crimes, and that is why they are imprisoned for years. And a significant share of these pele are Crimean Tatars," she said.

Kravchenko said it was important to remind in the text of the document that these pele have been in captivity since 2014, when the Russian Federation occupied Crimea and part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

As reported, on October 2, PACE adted the first resution concerning Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians held in Russian captivity.