New details in the case of political prisoner Vladyslav Yesipenko

Organizers: Media Center Ukraine — Ukrinform.

Speakers: Kateryna Yesypenko - wife of political prisoner Vladyslav Yesypenko; Volodymyr Chekryhin - Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Human Rights Group; Volodymyr Prytula - head of the project "Crimea. Realities" of Radio Svoboda; Denys Chistikov - Deputy Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; Tetyana Pechonchyk - head of the ZMINA Center for Human Rights; Vitaly Portnikov - publicist, writer, member of the Ukrainian PEN club, ambassador of the campaign for the release of Vladyslav Yesipenko (online).

Short. Vladyslav Yesypenko is a freelance journalist (freelancer) of Radio Liberty (Crym.Reality project), covered social and environmental issues, filmed surveys of Crimeans. He was detained by the FSS of Russia in Crimea on March 10, 2021, on charges of gathering information "in the interests of the special services of Ukraine", as well as keeping an "improvised explosive device" in his car. At the court session in Simferopol, where an independent lawyer was admitted, Vladyslav Yesypenko declared about torture by the Russian special services.

The format of the event is offline (Hall 1) + online inclusion.

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