KEY FINDINGS
In 2025, 27 cases of attacks/threats against professional media workers and citizen journalists, editorial offices of traditional and online media outlets, as well as Telegram channels and online activists, were identified and analysed in occupied Crimea. Data for the study were collected using content analysis from open sources, which were additionally verified, as well as from the ZMINA Human Rights Centre’s own fieldwork data. A list of the main sources is presented in Annex 1.
- Prosecution of media workers via criminal and administrative cases remained the main method of attack, with 26 incidents documented this year.
- Representatives of the authorities remained the primary source of threats against media workers, bloggers, and online activists in Crimea.
- Repressions against media workers who left Crimea intensified.
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