PFUJ calls for end to Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
November 02, 2025: PFUJ urges Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments to end Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists and ensure their safety and press freedom.
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NEW YORK - Russian authorities should immediately release Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday.
A Moscow city court sentenced Sushchenko, a Paris-based correspondent for Ukraine's state news agency, Ukrinform, to 12 years in a high-security prison on espionage charges, Russian and Ukrainian media reported.
Sushchenko has maintained his innocence since being arrested in late 2016. His employer, Ukrinform, as well as the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence denied the accusations. Sushchenko's defense attorney, Mark Feygin, wrote on Twitter that the journalist would appeal.
"Russian authorities handed out a harsh sentence to Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko after a speedy trial without producing a shred of evidence of their claims," said Nina Ognianova, CPJ's Europe and Central Asia Program coordinator. "We call on Russia to release Sushchenko immediately and drop all charges against him."
Russian security officers detained Sushchenko on September 30, 2016, in Moscow upon his arrival from Paris, CPJ reported at the time. He had traveled to Russia on vacation and planned to visit friends and relatives there, according to his employer.
Mariana Betsa, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, demanded Sushchenko's immediate release, calling the verdict "unlawful." – A CPJ statement
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