Ariev: In January’s PACE session, Ukraine will demand the release of illegally detained Ukrainians
Volodymyr Ariev, the Ukrainian chairman of the permanent delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said that the discussion topics in this January’s PACE session in Strasbourg would be the illegal detention of Ukrainians (journalist Roman Sushchenko, filmmaker Oleg Sentsov) in the Russian Federation and the persecution in the occupied Crimea of the journalist Nikolai Semena and the Crimean Tatar media.
January’s PACE session in Strasbourg will take place from January 23rd - 27th.
The presentation of Ariev's report is scheduled for January 25th. As Ariev said "My report will focus on the state of freedom of speech in Europe. Certainly, I will discuss the issue of Roman Sushchenko asking for his and Sentsov’s release. And then I will get into the persecution of the Crimean Tatar media and the journalist Nikolai Semena."
However, the Ukrainian Parliamentary delegation will not stick to just those issues; it will also organize the screening of a film about children in the Donbas and the humanitarian situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions respectively.