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"Deliberately targeting journalists, shelling their facilities, and engaging in arbitrary detentions and torture clearly violate international humanitarian law and press freedom."
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On March 23, at 7am, Svetlana Zalizetskaya, editor-in-chief of the RIA-Melitopol news outlet, learned that armed men in a white jeep had arrived at her house. She was not in the city, but neighbors told her they saw men with machine guns taking her parents out.
Russian soldiers had occupied Melitopol since early last month, kidnapped the city’s mayor, Ivan Fedorov, and tried to force him to work on the Russian side. He refused.
At the same time, the Russians began putting pressure on journalists: They needed to convince the population that the Russian army had come to “liberate the city from
Russian forces have repeatedly detained members of the press since invading Ukraine in February; at least two other journalists - Oleksandr Gunko and Iryna Dubchenko - remain in Russian custody.