Simon Shuster, TIME‘s Moscow correspondent, reported that pro-Russian forces in Sloviansk, Ukraine, have captured and held prisoner a Ukrainian journalist.
Her name is Irma Krat from Kyiv. The separatists said she is a Maidan activist and is suspected of torturing pro-Russians at the Sloviansk security services building.
Separatist troops just showed us a “Maidan” agent they caught. A young woman in a beige coat. I feel sick. #Ukraine #Slavyansk #Slovyansk
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) April 20, 2014
@volovachOKSANA Her name, they said, is Irma Krat, from Kiev. She was not allowed to speak.
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) April 20, 2014
Irma Krat is a journalist, activist from Kiev. Separatists interrogating her on suspicion of torture at #Slavyansk SBU building. #Ukraine
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) April 20, 2014
This is all I got: https://t.co/WNCLqHJkoV But I am confident this is her: https://t.co/xLuIhYt1zn Please help contact her family, friends.
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) April 20, 2014
Russian newsreel of Irma Krat, blindfolded. Separatist says she will be held pending investigation for “war crimes” http://t.co/xZ4DdOQUAw
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) April 20, 2014
I just reached Irma’s friends in Kiev. They tried to talk her out of going to Slavyansk to report. Family still unaware of her “arrest”
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) April 20, 2014
According to LifeNews, a Russian state-owned media outlet, she is the leader of “hundreds of women” in the Maidan “cell,” whose events she allegedly organized. She is accused of torturing and shooting pro-Russia militiamen.
Breitbart News will update this story when more information is available.
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