Kidnapped Vice Journalist Simon Ostrovsky Released From Captivity By Pro-Russian Militia

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He was beaten, bound, and then untied and kept in a basement, fed regularly.

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Simon Ostrovsky, on other detainees: “Their names are Artyom Deyneha, a local computer programmer who was caught setting up a webcam opposite the building where we were being held; Serhiy Lefter, a freelance journalist who was abducted on the main square in Sloviansk in broad daylight; Vadim Sukhonos, a deputy in the Sloviansk city council; and Vitaly Kovalchuk, a former member of the Euromaidan self-defense corps, who by his own admission came to Sloviansk with a group of Right Sector radicals who tried and failed to capture guns from pro-Russia militants.”