Buzzfeed and CBS Journalists Freed after Capture in Ukraine
by RELEVANT
May 2, 2014
Two groups of journalists—one from Buzzfeed and one from CBS—have been freed after being apprehended by pro-Russian separatists while reporting on the tension in Ukraine. The group from Buzzfeed was reportedly blindfolded and held for three hours before they were eventually let go, and a member of the CBS crew was beaten during the ordeal. The abductions come just days after the four-day detention of a reporter from Vice, also by separatists operating in eastern Ukraine …