PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA premises leased by the Center for the accommodation of ‘Crimean self-defense’ units. Shortly after this, the lessor (Crimea Trade Unions Federation) asked to free the premises. Center for Journalist Investigations took on lease some premises of Chernomor- skaya TV and Radio Company, but lost a part of its equipment because of the arrest and seizure of the broadcasting company’s property. In March 2015, the Center’s staT faced with the worse problems. They were the R rst against whom a criminal case was initiated on accusations of separatism in Crimea. On March 13, the FSS agents with a search warrant visited the apartments of Nata- lia Kokorina, the editor of the Center for Journalist Investigations, and Anna Andri- yevskaya, the Center’s staT writer and former editor. According to the Kokorina’s lawyer Jemil Temishev, the Russian FSB launched a criminal case against Anna Andriyevskaya, the journalist of the Center for Journalist Investigations. The case is opened under the Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code of the RF ‘Public Calls for Actions Aimed at Violation of the Territorial Integrity of the Russian Federation’. According to Anna Andriyevskaya, the reason for launching the case was her article about the Crimea battalion. The journalist claimed that it did not contain any calls for the separation of the peninsula. She had left Crimea before that time. ‘Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code of the RF is so vaguely formulated that any discussion of the borders of the Russian Federation or the future of its territory could fall under it. The punishment under this article may be the imprisonment for up to 5 years. Under this formulation also fall any doubts about the legitimacy of the Russian presence in a particular territory. Note that it is referred to verbal statements on the subject, not an armed resist- ance or rebellion attempts.’ Dmitry Makarov, Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Field Mission for Hu- man Rights, March 15, 2015. After the search, Natalia Kokorina was detained and taken to the FSB building, where she was questioned as a witness. Six hours later, the journalist was released but her personal laptop was conR scated. On October 2, 2015, it became known that Roskomnadzor restricted the online ac- cess to the website of the IA Center for Investigative Journalism at the request of the General Prosecutor’s O7 ce of Russia as of September 30, 2015. The notiR cation 106
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