Human Rights Watch demands Russian Journalists' immediate release.

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All journalists are endangered if this situation is allowed to go on. As members of the international press, these men must be released at once. Otherwise all reporters, all cameramen and all who act as sources for news stories important to us will be at risk of being silenced:

Human Rights Watch demands Kiev ‘immediately’ release detained journalist.

RT contributor Graham Philips and two Russian LifeNews journalists must be immediately set free by the Ukrainian authorities, Rachel Denber from Human Rights Watch told RT, adding that if there are any actual charges against them – they must be pressed.

Russian LifeNews journalists, Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, were detained on Sunday soon after they released a scandalous video, which showed a UN-marked helicopter being used by the Ukrainian army in a military operation in the eastern regions. Two days later, RT’s contributing journalist, Graham Phillips, was arrested at a checkpoint in the city of Mariupol.

The British citizen was reportedly interrogated by the Ukrainian Security Service (the SBU) for “filming facilities, which are forbidden from being filmed.”

HWR’s Rachel Denber says the fate of the detainees is raising serious concerns as they’re being deprived of the means of communication and the SBU is refusing to make any comments. Journalists from various Russian media outlets were also recently denied from entering Ukraine, including Zvezda, NTV, Channel One and TVC channels as well as RT Arabic’s news crew.

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Read more at: http://rt.com/op-edge/160572-ukraine-detained-journalist-hwr/