The report of the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights stated another problem of modern Crimean realities –restrictions on accreditation of the journalists on the peninsula for strange reasons.
“Thus, on April 27, the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was on an official visit in Simferopol. Accreditation requests to cover this event should have been submitted a week before the event. It can be concluded that some Crimean journalists didn’t get this accreditation because of unreliability. In particular, photographs of the Maydan events made in the course of performing professional activities were found on the social network page of one of the journalists. It became the basis to deny accreditation. The female mass media employee didn’t want to appeal against the denial,” the April report says.
In addition, human rights defenders say that the administration of the INA “Rossiya Segodnya” press center that appeared in Simferopol recently announced that it reserves the right to refuse accreditation without giving any reason.
“The union of independent mass media workers believes that the “filtering” of mass media and additional tools to limit the freedom of speech are created through such press centers,” the document says.
