BUENOS AIRES, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - A demonstration in support of International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya photojournalist Andrei Stenin, who is missing in Ukraine, has been organized in Argentina.
In Necochea, a city in the southwest of Buenos Aires Province, people gathered together in one of the city's parks and held up posters with the #freeAndrew hashtag.
In San Carlos de Bariloche, members of the city's Russian community called for the release of Andrei Stenin at one of their meetings.
Similar events took place in other Argentinian cities, including the capital Buenos Aires and the country's third largest city Rosario.
Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin went missing in eastern Ukraine on August 5. On August 9, Rossiya Segodnya filed a request for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry to take action in order to locate Stenin, with the ministry agreeing to look into the case.
On August 12, Anton Herashchenko, an aide to the Ukrainian interior minister, said in an interview with Baltkom radio that Ukrainian security forces had arrested Stenin on charges of assisting terrorists, but the statement has not been commented on by Kiev.
A number of events in support of the photographer have taken place around the world urging his release. His current whereabouts to this day remain unknown, and he appears on the Ukrainian militia’s missing persons list.
Please support Andrei Stenin’s release by sharing the hashtag #FreeAndrew in social networks. Andrei is a professional war photographer reporting from the most dangerous war zones in the world. You can view Andrei’s pictures from Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Libya here and his most recent shots from eastern Ukraine here.
