forces raided the kiev offices of a russian media group and detained its director killed in charge of rhian overseas ukraine bureau was detained tuesday for alleged treason on thursday a court in the ukrainian city of cares and ruled to detain him for sixty days the security service raid on the offices of rhian obvious to ukraine lasted more than eight hours the homes of journalists working for the agency were searched and there's been high level condemnation of kiev's actions many organizations accuse the ukrainian government of an attack on media freedom they demanded the release to discuss this is rachel den the deputy director at the european central asia division of human rights watch she says complaints over media freedom in ukraine are on the rise. under no circumstances should the government be criminalizing speech and media activities that groundlessly and ukraine i think this is out of line with ukraine's these raids and the detentions are out of line with ukraine's obligations to protect media freedoms it is an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is

after vicious he was arrested ukrainian security services also broke into the offices of rhian obvious to ukraine the searches lasted more than eight hours and the houses of journalists working for the agency were also searched as sort of in high level condemnation against actions many organizations are accusing the ukrainian government of an attack on media freedom but also demanding vision release human rights watch called on ukrainian authorities to provide evidence to back up its charges against a journalist and we discuss the case with the organizations deputy director for europe and central asia rachel demba. under no circumstances should the government be criminalizing speech and media activities groundlessly and ukraine i think this is out of line with ukraine's these raids and detentions are out of line with ukraine's obligations to protect media freedoms. case there's a there's an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is grounding treason charges that's an extremely serious serious charge that carries a hefty prison sentence so they better continu