Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky held by pro-Russian gunmen for being “suspected of bad activities.”

Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky being held by pro-Russian gunmen

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/04/23/vice_journalist_simon_ostrovsky_being_held_by_prorussian_gunmen.html


DONETSK, UKRAINE—Pro-Russian gunmen in eastern Ukraine admitted on Wednesday that they are holding an American journalist, saying he was suspected of unspecified “bad activities.”

Simon Ostrovsky, a journalist for Vice News, has not been seen since early Tuesday. He has been covering the crisis in Ukraine for weeks and was reporting about groups of masked gunmen seizing government buildings in one eastern Ukrainian city after another.

Pro-Russia insurgents who have been occupying police stations and other public buildings in eastern Ukraine for more than a week are defying the accords that Russia and Ukraine signed last week that urged all parties in Ukraine to lay down their arms and vacate the public offices.


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“He’s with us. He’s fine,” Khorosheva told The Associated Press. When asked why Ostrovsky was held captive, Khorosheva said he is “suspected of bad activities,” which she refused to explain. She says the insurgents are holding Ostrovsky pending their own investigation.