Ukrainian security and immigration authorities should remove all restrictions on Russian journalist Tamara Nersesyan’s ability to report from Ukraine, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The Ukrainian National Security Service (SBU) last night detained Nersesyan, a special correspondent for the Russian state broadcaster VGTRK, and deported her to Russia.
Nersesyan told the Russian media holding RBC that security officials detained her in the street in Kyiv last night, brought her to the SBU headquarters, and questioned her for three hours. She said she was told she was being expelled from Ukraine and banned from the country for three years because of her reporting, which security officials told her inflamed the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
