The Committee to Protect Journalists joined nine media and civil society organizations, including five members of the Media Freedom Rapid Response consortium in a letter welcoming the opening of an investigation into the killing of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchina, whose death in Russian custody was confirmed to her father by authorities and multiple reports.
The signatories urged Russian authorities to make the circumstances of Roshchina’s death public and to conduct a full investigation so that those responsible can be held to account.
Roshchina, a freelance reporter who covered the ongoing war in Ukraine for several Ukrainian media outlets, went missing on August 3, 2023, in eastern Ukraine; Russian authorities confirmed her detention April 2024. The journalist died September 19 while being transferred from the southwestern Russian city of Taganrog to Moscow, the capital, for a prisoner exchange, according to those reports.
Read the full letter here.