The International Foundation for Justice for Journalists published the report Attacks on Media Workers in 2020, in which it analyzed the situation with freedom of speech in the occupied Crimea.
The report stressed that after the occupation of Crimea in 2014, the independent media of the peninsula were virtually completely destroyed. Professional journalists and editorial offices who tried to continue their work were subjected to systematic pressure, intimidation and other forms of persecution by the new authorities and their assistants. Many journalists left the profession or were forced to leave for the mainland of Ukraine.
“The study identified and analyzed 58 cases of attacks / threats against professional media workers and citizen journalists, editorial offices of traditional and online publications, telegram channels, as well as online activists that occurred in 2020 on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula”,- the message said.