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04-29-2014, 03:40 PM
For Pro-Russia Militants, Ukraine's Journalists Are Bargaining Chips
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KIEV, Ukraine — With tears running down his cheeks, Ukrainian photojournalist Yevhen Hapych tells a nightmare of a story about the time he and his brother were kidnapped and subjected to psychological and physical torture.
“They [the captors] filled our ears with cotton, blindfolded us with a thick bandage. We could hear something, but saw **thing. We were placed on the floor of the car. It was like a police car, because it had a siren,” Hapych told Ukrainian news station TSN in an emotional interview (http://censor.net.ua/video_news/282753/jurnalist_iz_kolomyi_rasskazal_o_pytkah_boevikov_v ybivali_priznanie_chto_ya_iz_unaunso_i_priehal_voe vat) just after the two were released last Friday
Hapych, who is from western Ukraine, said one of the kidnappers threatened to stab him to death, telling him: “With this knife I’ve sent so many to the light.” Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/journalists-ukraine-conflict/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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KIEV, Ukraine — With tears running down his cheeks, Ukrainian photojournalist Yevhen Hapych tells a nightmare of a story about the time he and his brother were kidnapped and subjected to psychological and physical torture.
“They [the captors] filled our ears with cotton, blindfolded us with a thick bandage. We could hear something, but saw **thing. We were placed on the floor of the car. It was like a police car, because it had a siren,” Hapych told Ukrainian news station TSN in an emotional interview (http://censor.net.ua/video_news/282753/jurnalist_iz_kolomyi_rasskazal_o_pytkah_boevikov_v ybivali_priznanie_chto_ya_iz_unaunso_i_priehal_voe vat) just after the two were released last Friday
Hapych, who is from western Ukraine, said one of the kidnappers threatened to stab him to death, telling him: “With this knife I’ve sent so many to the light.” Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/journalists-ukraine-conflict/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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