British journalist Graham Phillips held in Ukraine
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Ha... and finally the great BBC has been awakened.
British journalist Graham Phillips held in Ukraine
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27506545
British journalist Graham Phillips held in Ukraine
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27506545
Hashtags #SaveGrahamPhilips and #GrahamPhilips are now trending in the Twitter.
And this is the Twitter homepage of "Section 15" - the one who first threatened Graham Philips:
https://twitter.com/USANFL
And this is the Twitter homepage of "Section 15" - the one who first threatened Graham Philips:
https://twitter.com/USANFL
The mainstream media is full of articles condemning the treatment of media personnel by Vladimir Putin. How shameless this hypocrites can get. Has Putin ever imprisoned any Western journalists for reporting the truth?
It's obvious that Kiev's junta tries to silence any representatives of "wrong" press before "elections".
Graham Philips whill be given to the clutches of SBU and transferred to Kiev for further interrogations:
http://www.interfax.ru/world/377170
That's the way to go, shut the questioning press up. Hail Ukraine! Hail USA!
Selective solidarity: Not all threatened journalists in Ukraine make UK headlines
http://rt.com/op-edge/160444-british-journalist-phillips-arrested-ukraine/
http://www.interfax.ru/world/377170
That's the way to go, shut the questioning press up. Hail Ukraine! Hail USA!
Selective solidarity: Not all threatened journalists in Ukraine make UK headlines
http://rt.com/op-edge/160444-british-journalist-phillips-arrested-ukraine/
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UK journalist and RT stringer Graham Phillips gets detained in Ukraine, but the British media remain silent.
“Ukrainian journalists face threats as separatists make demands of media”, “Two Ukrainian journalists disappear in Crimea – watchdog”, “US journalist Simon Ostrovsky held by pro-Russian militia in Ukraine.” These and other flashy headlines have lately appeared in abundance in the UK media, which detailed the plight of reporters working in Ukraine torn by probably the most dramatic civil strife in decades. But this display of corporate solidarity appears to have been bewilderingly selective.
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So how is it that his detention and subsequent disappearance have gone almost unnoticed by the UK media? Was it that Phillips happened to be an RT contributor, or something else that could explain this unexpected collective oblivion?
“Ukrainian journalists face threats as separatists make demands of media”, “Two Ukrainian journalists disappear in Crimea – watchdog”, “US journalist Simon Ostrovsky held by pro-Russian militia in Ukraine.” These and other flashy headlines have lately appeared in abundance in the UK media, which detailed the plight of reporters working in Ukraine torn by probably the most dramatic civil strife in decades. But this display of corporate solidarity appears to have been bewilderingly selective.
...
So how is it that his detention and subsequent disappearance have gone almost unnoticed by the UK media? Was it that Phillips happened to be an RT contributor, or something else that could explain this unexpected collective oblivion?
RT contributing journalist Graham Phillips said he has been detained by the National Guard at a check point in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. Following his phone call RT lost connection with the British journalist while UK said ready to provide assistance.
RT has lost connection with the it’s contributing journalist Graham Phillips who was detained at a check point in Mariupol earlier on Tuesday.
A source familiar with the incident said that the National Guard was reportedly ready to release Phillips on condition that he deletes all the footage he recorded near the roadblock. After the journalist refused to do so, his captors called Ukrainian Security Service who then confiscated his photo and video recording equipment and decided to send him to Kiev, the source said.
"Our stringer Graham Phillips was arrested at a checkpoint by people who, according to him, when we last spoke, introduced themselves as the National Guard and asked for his papers. After this, the connection with the journalist was lost, we still cannot get in touch with Graham, we are extremely worried what could happen to him. It is even more worrying after the events, which, as we all saw happened to the LifeNews TV correspondents” said Alexey Kuznetsov, deputy head of RT’s English department.
“I’m sitting at a blockade post in a portacabin. The dialogue is quite interrogation oriented,” Phillips earlier told RT in a phone call.
He added that he was asked if he is a spy, while his car was searched and his laptop confiscated. However, he noted that he is being treated well.
“At the moment I’m with the Ukrainian forces … near Mariupol. I’ve been here for over two hours and I’ve been described, my status, as being detained in terms of I can’t leave. I would also say I’m being treated OK by them. I believe that someone is coming. They’ve done checks on my documentation. They found my reports and clips I’ve done and they’re now looking through them asking me my position on things, asking if I’m a spy, and asking me quite thorough questions. They’ve checked all my documentation and photos, my laptop and the car – so that’s who I’m with at the moment.”
He also said he has been asked about separatism and his working arrangement with RT.
“I’ve been describing my position on Crimea. I did believe - and I did say and I did state and I stand by position – that the Crimea referendum was legitimate. I do believe referendums held here have a legitimacy, and I had an exchange one day that I do believe the Kiev government isn’t legal and isn’t democratic. I don’t support this current situation in the east of Ukraine or the Donetsk Republic, as it’s now been named. I believe the position of President Turchinov and [PM] Yatsenyuk - not coming here to speak to people, but using military forces to launch assaults against them - is completely wrong.”
During the phone conversation Phillips said he had explained to his captives that while working for RT he “maintains complete objectivity and neutrality as a correspondent.”
“I present the facts as I see them and exactly as today, which is to say they’re treating me OK. They’ve taken my bulletproof jacket and my helmet, but on the other hand they haven’t in any way inflicted any form of injury or any actions on my person.”
UK Foreign Office ready to provide consular assistance
The UK Foreign Office, upon being contacted by RT, said it is looking into Phillip’s detention and "stand ready to provide consular assistance."
The British national's previous record of reporting for RT has already backfired on him. Two weeks ago Ukrainian radicals put a bounty out on Phillips. The Right Sector reportedly offered $10,000 for the capture of “the Russian spy.”
On Monday, pro-Kiev activists again called to “immediately detain and deport” Phillips, whom they believe is “cooperating with terrorists,” according to a message posted on EuroMaidan Kharkov's Facebook page.
The message read that Phillips “daily works for terrorists, he photographs and publishes the location of Ukrainian troops, spreads disinformation and Putin’s propaganda in the media. He must be immediately detained by Ukrainian forces and deported from Ukraine.” The message also said that the order comes from “EuroMaidan leaders.”
Russia slams 'curbing activities of unwanted journalists' in Ukraine
In Moscow, Kiev was slammed over Phillips’ detention. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s commissioner for human rights labeled it as the obstruction of media that doesn’t support the coup-appointed authorities’ policy.
"This is another step de facto made by Ukrainian authorities to curb the activities of unwanted journalists” said Konstantin Dolgov. “The journalists who work professionally and show an objective picture, the ugly side of the outrages made by ultranationalists, the results of [Kiev’s] punitive operation in the southeast.”
Dolgov added that Phillips was detained following the “unlawful seizure, detention of Russian journalists” adding that Moscow is continuing to work for their speedy release.
He stressed that Kiev “continues [to hold] its vicious line” and has once again proved that the Ukrainian authorities are “not going to fulfill their international obligations concerning freedom of speech.”
The media freedom situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate. On Sunday, two Russian LifeNews journalists, Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, were captured by Ukrainian troops, presumably near Kramatorsk in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The journalists were being investigated on the charges of “aiding the terrorist groups,” said Deputy Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (SNBO) on Monday.
The OSCE urged Kiev authorities to release the Russian journalists saying that intimidation and obstruction of media is “unacceptable.”
Previous week, RT's Ruptly video journalists came under fire from two APCs as their car was targeted near the city of Kramatorsk. The journalists were en route to the town of Dmitrovka, some 30 kilometers from Slavyansk.
http://rt.com/news/160188-rt-journalist-detain-army/
RT has lost connection with the it’s contributing journalist Graham Phillips who was detained at a check point in Mariupol earlier on Tuesday.
A source familiar with the incident said that the National Guard was reportedly ready to release Phillips on condition that he deletes all the footage he recorded near the roadblock. After the journalist refused to do so, his captors called Ukrainian Security Service who then confiscated his photo and video recording equipment and decided to send him to Kiev, the source said.
"Our stringer Graham Phillips was arrested at a checkpoint by people who, according to him, when we last spoke, introduced themselves as the National Guard and asked for his papers. After this, the connection with the journalist was lost, we still cannot get in touch with Graham, we are extremely worried what could happen to him. It is even more worrying after the events, which, as we all saw happened to the LifeNews TV correspondents” said Alexey Kuznetsov, deputy head of RT’s English department.
“I’m sitting at a blockade post in a portacabin. The dialogue is quite interrogation oriented,” Phillips earlier told RT in a phone call.
He added that he was asked if he is a spy, while his car was searched and his laptop confiscated. However, he noted that he is being treated well.
“At the moment I’m with the Ukrainian forces … near Mariupol. I’ve been here for over two hours and I’ve been described, my status, as being detained in terms of I can’t leave. I would also say I’m being treated OK by them. I believe that someone is coming. They’ve done checks on my documentation. They found my reports and clips I’ve done and they’re now looking through them asking me my position on things, asking if I’m a spy, and asking me quite thorough questions. They’ve checked all my documentation and photos, my laptop and the car – so that’s who I’m with at the moment.”
He also said he has been asked about separatism and his working arrangement with RT.
“I’ve been describing my position on Crimea. I did believe - and I did say and I did state and I stand by position – that the Crimea referendum was legitimate. I do believe referendums held here have a legitimacy, and I had an exchange one day that I do believe the Kiev government isn’t legal and isn’t democratic. I don’t support this current situation in the east of Ukraine or the Donetsk Republic, as it’s now been named. I believe the position of President Turchinov and [PM] Yatsenyuk - not coming here to speak to people, but using military forces to launch assaults against them - is completely wrong.”
During the phone conversation Phillips said he had explained to his captives that while working for RT he “maintains complete objectivity and neutrality as a correspondent.”
“I present the facts as I see them and exactly as today, which is to say they’re treating me OK. They’ve taken my bulletproof jacket and my helmet, but on the other hand they haven’t in any way inflicted any form of injury or any actions on my person.”
UK Foreign Office ready to provide consular assistance
The UK Foreign Office, upon being contacted by RT, said it is looking into Phillip’s detention and "stand ready to provide consular assistance."
The British national's previous record of reporting for RT has already backfired on him. Two weeks ago Ukrainian radicals put a bounty out on Phillips. The Right Sector reportedly offered $10,000 for the capture of “the Russian spy.”
On Monday, pro-Kiev activists again called to “immediately detain and deport” Phillips, whom they believe is “cooperating with terrorists,” according to a message posted on EuroMaidan Kharkov's Facebook page.
The message read that Phillips “daily works for terrorists, he photographs and publishes the location of Ukrainian troops, spreads disinformation and Putin’s propaganda in the media. He must be immediately detained by Ukrainian forces and deported from Ukraine.” The message also said that the order comes from “EuroMaidan leaders.”
Russia slams 'curbing activities of unwanted journalists' in Ukraine
In Moscow, Kiev was slammed over Phillips’ detention. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s commissioner for human rights labeled it as the obstruction of media that doesn’t support the coup-appointed authorities’ policy.
"This is another step de facto made by Ukrainian authorities to curb the activities of unwanted journalists” said Konstantin Dolgov. “The journalists who work professionally and show an objective picture, the ugly side of the outrages made by ultranationalists, the results of [Kiev’s] punitive operation in the southeast.”
Dolgov added that Phillips was detained following the “unlawful seizure, detention of Russian journalists” adding that Moscow is continuing to work for their speedy release.
He stressed that Kiev “continues [to hold] its vicious line” and has once again proved that the Ukrainian authorities are “not going to fulfill their international obligations concerning freedom of speech.”
The media freedom situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate. On Sunday, two Russian LifeNews journalists, Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, were captured by Ukrainian troops, presumably near Kramatorsk in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The journalists were being investigated on the charges of “aiding the terrorist groups,” said Deputy Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (SNBO) on Monday.
The OSCE urged Kiev authorities to release the Russian journalists saying that intimidation and obstruction of media is “unacceptable.”
Previous week, RT's Ruptly video journalists came under fire from two APCs as their car was targeted near the city of Kramatorsk. The journalists were en route to the town of Dmitrovka, some 30 kilometers from Slavyansk.
http://rt.com/news/160188-rt-journalist-detain-army/
MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian special forces have detained a British freelance journalist reporting for RT, the TV channel said Tuesday.
“I’m sitting at a blockade post in a portacabin. The dialogue is quite interrogation oriented,” Graham Phillips told RT over a phone.
The journalist was detained by the Ukrainian National Guard near a checkpoint in the city of Mariupol. He was reportedly interrogated about alleged spying activities.
The National Guard confiscated Phillips’ laptop, a bulletproof jacket and his helmet, though he did not sustain any sort of injuries, according to RT.
The soldiers claimed the detained journalist would stay at the checkpoint till the arrival of officials.
Phillips earlier wrote on his Twitter account that Ukrainian radicals had placed a ten-thousand-dollar bounty on his head.
This is not the first case of journalists being detained in Ukraine. Last week two LifeNews journalists, Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, were arrested by Ukraine’s so-called National Guard outside Kramatorsk. The Ukrainian authorities accused them of supporting terrorism in the country’s east.
Over the past two months, reporters of Russia’s leading channels have been kidnapped, beaten, threatened and denied access to Ukraine. Broadcasting of Russian media has also been banned across the country.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140520/189980588/RT-Freelance-Journalist-Detained-in-Ukraine.html
“I’m sitting at a blockade post in a portacabin. The dialogue is quite interrogation oriented,” Graham Phillips told RT over a phone.
The journalist was detained by the Ukrainian National Guard near a checkpoint in the city of Mariupol. He was reportedly interrogated about alleged spying activities.
The National Guard confiscated Phillips’ laptop, a bulletproof jacket and his helmet, though he did not sustain any sort of injuries, according to RT.
The soldiers claimed the detained journalist would stay at the checkpoint till the arrival of officials.
Phillips earlier wrote on his Twitter account that Ukrainian radicals had placed a ten-thousand-dollar bounty on his head.
This is not the first case of journalists being detained in Ukraine. Last week two LifeNews journalists, Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, were arrested by Ukraine’s so-called National Guard outside Kramatorsk. The Ukrainian authorities accused them of supporting terrorism in the country’s east.
Over the past two months, reporters of Russia’s leading channels have been kidnapped, beaten, threatened and denied access to Ukraine. Broadcasting of Russian media has also been banned across the country.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140520/189980588/RT-Freelance-Journalist-Detained-in-Ukraine.html
His last tweet was about 8 hours ago. At the time of detention, he was investigating the human rights violations in Mariupol. The Kiev Nazis are showing their true colors once again.
https://www.youtube.com/user/gwplondon
https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK
http://grahamwphillips.com/
RT contributing journalist Graham Phillips says he has been detained by the National Guard at a check point in Mariupol, south-eastern Ukraine.
“I’m sitting at a blockade post in a portacabin. The dialogue is quite interrogation oriented,” Phillips told RT in a phone call.
He added that he was asked if he is a spy, while his car was searched and his laptop confiscated. However, he noted that he is being treated well.
“At the moment I’m with the Ukrainian forces … near Mariupol. I’ve been here for over two hours and I’ve been described, my status, as being detained in terms of I can’t leave. I would also say I’m being treated OK by them. I believe that someone is coming. They’ve done checks on my documentation. They found my reports and clips I’ve done and they’re now looking through them asking me my position on things, asking if I’m a spy, and asking me quite thorough questions. They’ve checked all my documentation and photos, my laptop and the car – so that’s who I’m with at the moment.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40T1GSJbQXY
He also said he has been asked about separatism and his working arrangement with RT.
“I’ve been describing my position on Crimea. I did believe - and I did say and I did state and I stand by position – that the Crimea referendum was legitimate. I do believe referendums held here have a legitimacy, and I had an exchange one day that I do believe the Kiev government isn’t legal and isn’t democratic. I don’t support this current situation in the east of Ukraine or the Donetsk Republic, as it’s now been named. I believe the position of President Turchinov and [PM] Yatsenyuk - not coming here to speak to people, but using military forces to launch assaults against them - is completely wrong.”
During the phone conversation Phillips said he had explained to his captives that while working for RT he “maintains complete objectivity and neutrality as a correspondent.”
“I present the facts as I see them and exactly as today, which is to say they’re treating me OK. They’ve taken my bulletproof jacket and my helmet, but on the other hand they haven’t in any way inflicted any form of injury or any actions on my person.”
The British national's previous record of reporting for RT has already backfired on him. Two weeks ago Ukrainian radicals put a bounty out on Phillips. The Right Sector reportedly offered $10,000 for the capture of “the Russian spy.”
On Monday, pro-Kiev activists again called to “immediately detain and deport” Phillips, whom they believe is “cooperating with terrorists,” according to a message posted on EuroMaidan Kharkov's Facebook page.
The message read that Phillips “daily works for terrorists, he photographs and publishes the location of Ukrainian troops, spreads disinformation and Putin’s propaganda in the media. He must be immediately detained by Ukrainian forces and deported from Ukraine.” The message also said that the order comes from “EuroMaidan leaders.”
In Moscow, Kiev was slammed over Phillips’ detention. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s commissioner for human rights labeled it as the obstruction of media that doesn’t support the coup-appointed authorities’ policy.
"This is another step de facto made by Ukrainian authorities to curb the activities of unwanted journalists” said Konstantin Dolgov. “The journalists who work professionally and show an objective picture, the ugly side of the outrages made by ultranationalists, the results of [Kiev’s] punitive operation in the southeast.”
Dolgov added that Phillips was detained following the “unlawful seizure, detention of Russian journalists” adding that Moscow is continuing to work for their speedy release.
He stressed that Kiev “continues [to hold] its vicious line” and has once again proved that the Ukrainian authorities are “not going to fulfill their international obligations concerning freedom of speech.”
The media freedom situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate. On Sunday, two Russian LifeNews journalists, Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, were captured by Ukrainian troops, presumably near Kramatorsk in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The journalists were being investigated on the charges of “aiding the terrorist groups,” said Deputy Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (SNBO) on Monday.
The OSCE urged Kiev authorities to release the Russian journalists saying that intimidation and obstruction of media is “unacceptable.”
Previous week, RT's Ruptly video journalists came under fire from two APCs as their car was targeted near the city of Kramatorsk. The journalists were en route to the town of Dmitrovka, some 30 kilometers from Slavyansk.
http://rt.com/news/160188-rt-journalist-detain-army/
http://lifenews.ru/news/133527
http://www.agccommunication.eu/89-regoledingaggio/7446-ucraina-phillis-russia
http://www.02elf.net/europa/britischer-reporter-graham-phillips-in-ukraine-festgenommen-531071
http://www.agi.it/ultime/notizie/articoli/201405201542-est-rom0046-ucraina_arrestato_giornalista_britannico_di_tv_russa
https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK
http://grahamwphillips.com/
RT contributing journalist Graham Phillips says he has been detained by the National Guard at a check point in Mariupol, south-eastern Ukraine.
“I’m sitting at a blockade post in a portacabin. The dialogue is quite interrogation oriented,” Phillips told RT in a phone call.
He added that he was asked if he is a spy, while his car was searched and his laptop confiscated. However, he noted that he is being treated well.
“At the moment I’m with the Ukrainian forces … near Mariupol. I’ve been here for over two hours and I’ve been described, my status, as being detained in terms of I can’t leave. I would also say I’m being treated OK by them. I believe that someone is coming. They’ve done checks on my documentation. They found my reports and clips I’ve done and they’re now looking through them asking me my position on things, asking if I’m a spy, and asking me quite thorough questions. They’ve checked all my documentation and photos, my laptop and the car – so that’s who I’m with at the moment.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40T1GSJbQXY
He also said he has been asked about separatism and his working arrangement with RT.
“I’ve been describing my position on Crimea. I did believe - and I did say and I did state and I stand by position – that the Crimea referendum was legitimate. I do believe referendums held here have a legitimacy, and I had an exchange one day that I do believe the Kiev government isn’t legal and isn’t democratic. I don’t support this current situation in the east of Ukraine or the Donetsk Republic, as it’s now been named. I believe the position of President Turchinov and [PM] Yatsenyuk - not coming here to speak to people, but using military forces to launch assaults against them - is completely wrong.”
During the phone conversation Phillips said he had explained to his captives that while working for RT he “maintains complete objectivity and neutrality as a correspondent.”
“I present the facts as I see them and exactly as today, which is to say they’re treating me OK. They’ve taken my bulletproof jacket and my helmet, but on the other hand they haven’t in any way inflicted any form of injury or any actions on my person.”
The British national's previous record of reporting for RT has already backfired on him. Two weeks ago Ukrainian radicals put a bounty out on Phillips. The Right Sector reportedly offered $10,000 for the capture of “the Russian spy.”
On Monday, pro-Kiev activists again called to “immediately detain and deport” Phillips, whom they believe is “cooperating with terrorists,” according to a message posted on EuroMaidan Kharkov's Facebook page.
The message read that Phillips “daily works for terrorists, he photographs and publishes the location of Ukrainian troops, spreads disinformation and Putin’s propaganda in the media. He must be immediately detained by Ukrainian forces and deported from Ukraine.” The message also said that the order comes from “EuroMaidan leaders.”
In Moscow, Kiev was slammed over Phillips’ detention. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s commissioner for human rights labeled it as the obstruction of media that doesn’t support the coup-appointed authorities’ policy.
"This is another step de facto made by Ukrainian authorities to curb the activities of unwanted journalists” said Konstantin Dolgov. “The journalists who work professionally and show an objective picture, the ugly side of the outrages made by ultranationalists, the results of [Kiev’s] punitive operation in the southeast.”
Dolgov added that Phillips was detained following the “unlawful seizure, detention of Russian journalists” adding that Moscow is continuing to work for their speedy release.
He stressed that Kiev “continues [to hold] its vicious line” and has once again proved that the Ukrainian authorities are “not going to fulfill their international obligations concerning freedom of speech.”
The media freedom situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate. On Sunday, two Russian LifeNews journalists, Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, were captured by Ukrainian troops, presumably near Kramatorsk in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The journalists were being investigated on the charges of “aiding the terrorist groups,” said Deputy Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (SNBO) on Monday.
The OSCE urged Kiev authorities to release the Russian journalists saying that intimidation and obstruction of media is “unacceptable.”
Previous week, RT's Ruptly video journalists came under fire from two APCs as their car was targeted near the city of Kramatorsk. The journalists were en route to the town of Dmitrovka, some 30 kilometers from Slavyansk.
http://rt.com/news/160188-rt-journalist-detain-army/
http://lifenews.ru/news/133527
http://www.agccommunication.eu/89-regoledingaggio/7446-ucraina-phillis-russia
http://www.02elf.net/europa/britischer-reporter-graham-phillips-in-ukraine-festgenommen-531071
http://www.agi.it/ultime/notizie/articoli/201405201542-est-rom0046-ucraina_arrestato_giornalista_britannico_di_tv_russa
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