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FOCUS

06:29

FOCUS © FRANCE 24

Issued on: 01/05/2025 - 11:50

06:29 min

From the show

Focus

Since the start of the war in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region in 2014, the Russian-installed regime there has been arbitrarily detaining civilians on a massive scale. Journalists, activists, local politicians: just about anyone the occupation authorities take a dislike to is in danger of being taken prisoner and tortured. Some are held for a few days, others for years. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg investigates, with a consortium of media under the "Forbidden Stories" umbrella.

Read moreForbidden Stories: a journalist's disappearance in Russian-occupied Ukraine

For this report, FRANCE 24 worked with a consortium of 13 media outlets under the umbrella "Forbidden Stories", the aim of which is to investigate the fates of journalists who have been killed or otherwise silenced – and to continue their work.