List of imprisoned Ukrainian journalists - 2025
Source: Zmina
Since the occupation began in 2014, the Crimean Peninsula has faced significant restrictions on freedom of speech and access to information. A movement of citizen journalism emerged on the peninsula, aimed at resisting the occupation and providing Crimeans and the outside world with objective information about what is happening there. However, the occupying authorities began to crack down on activists, the media, and citizen journalists.
ZMINA documented 162 cases of pressure on journalists in the temporarily occupied Crimea during 2022–2023. Since the beginning of 2024, more than 80 cases of pressure by the occupying authorities on professional media workers and citizen journalists have been documented, including journalists from the “Crimean Solidarity” initiative, the newspaper “Kyrym,” and the publications “Nankedzhan,” “Armanchyk,” and “Crimean Process.”
Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, the Russian Federation has employed the same methods of suppressing freedom of speech in the newly occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, persecuting and unlawfully detaining both professional journalists and bloggers and freelancers.
At least 26 journalists from the occupied territories are currently behind bars, 17 of whom are Crimean journalists. Imprisoned journalists often face torture and inhumane treatment in detention facilities; they are placed in punishment cells and denied access to medical care. In addition, they are illegally transferred from the occupied territories to prisons in Russia, where their relatives and lawyers do not have regular access to them.
The list of imprisoned Ukrainian journalists is available in Ukrainian and English.
Since the occupation began in 2014, the Crimean Peninsula has faced significant restrictions on freedom of speech and access to information. A movement of citizen journalism emerged on the peninsula, aimed at resisting the occupation and providing Crimeans and the outside world with objective information about what is happening there. However, the occupying authorities began to crack down on activists, the media, and citizen journalists.
ZMINA documented 162 cases of pressure on journalists in the temporarily occupied Crimea during 2022–2023. Since the beginning of 2024, more than 80 cases of pressure by the occupying authorities on professional media workers and citizen journalists have been documented, including journalists from the “Crimean Solidarity” initiative, the newspaper “Kyrym,” and the publications “Nankedzhan,” “Armanchyk,” and “Crimean Process.”
Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, the Russian Federation has employed the same methods of suppressing freedom of speech in the newly occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, persecuting and unlawfully detaining both professional journalists and bloggers and freelancers.
At least 26 journalists from the occupied territories are currently behind bars, 17 of whom are Crimean journalists. Imprisoned journalists often face torture and inhumane treatment in detention facilities; they are placed in punishment cells and denied access to medical care. In addition, they are illegally transferred from the occupied territories to prisons in Russia, where their relatives and lawyers do not have regular access to them.
The list of imprisoned Ukrainian journalists is available in Ukrainian and English.
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