The Crimean Human Rights Field Mission and the Human Rights Information Centre introduce the overview of the situation of freedom of speech in Crimea as of May 2015.
Summarizing the interim results of monitoring transparency and freedom of speech, the Crimean Human Rights Field Mission states that there are signs of systematic work on the monopolization of information space, including through administrative pressure on independent media, on the peninsula.
9 April, Kyiv – UNIAN news agency hosted a press conference on the topic "What can we do to protect freedom of speech in Crimea?" to discuss the situation for freedom of expression on the peninsula and the facts of pressure on the media. Representatives of human rights organizations and Ukrainian authorities told what is being done to counter the destruction of independent media in Crimea.
Attacks on the media in Crimea increase every month, limiting freedom of speech in several ways. This was announced by representatives of Ukrainian mass media, who continue to work in Crimea, at the press conference on 2 February 2015 in Kyiv.