On Friday 22 September, a spokesperson for the European External Action Service criticised the two-and-a-half year suspended prison sentence handed down to journalist Mykola Semena, including a ban on conducting journalistic work, and called for the charges to be dropped immediately.
The sentence "is a clear violation of the freedom of expression and of the media. It represents another example of the deterioration of the human rights situation in the Crimean peninsula after its illegal...