Amnesty International: Nine Ukrainian activists detained by Donbas separatists in 2016

"We continue to monitor the fate of illegally detained pro-Ukrainian activists on the territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists. We documented nine such cases over the past year. And in all these cases, the pro-Russian authorities in eastern Ukraine illegally and at their own discretion hold people captive, they get access neither to lawyers, nor to their families," Yankov said.