OSCE representative urges Russia to release Semena and Sushchenko

"Ukrainian journalist Mykola Semena remains incarcerated in the temporarily occupied Crimea under fabricated charges while the Russian occupation court in Simferopol continues its show trial. Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko continues to be held in illegal detention in Moscow. We urge Russia to immediately release these journalists and other Ukrainian citizens, held in Russia’s detention as political prisoners," Prokopchuk said in his speech. He called on the OSCE Chairmanship and relevant OSCE Institutions to use all instruments to monitor those cases and many other abuses of basic human rights and OSCE commitments taking place in the temporarily occupied Crimea and in Russia itself.