OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Desir welcomes a decision by the authorities in Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Crimea region to expunge the criminal record of RFE/RL contributor Mykola Semena, insisting that the Crimean journalist shouldn’t have been “persecuted” in the first place for expressing his views.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
RFE/RL: OSCE hopes Crimean journalist’s work to be ‘unhindered’
A picture shows Crimean Report, a collection of articles written by a veteran Crimean-Ukrainian journalist Mykola Semena for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, chronicles the first two years of Russian occupation after the February 2014 invasion. The English edition came out in February 2018.
