The Committee to Protect Journalists said that separatists had seized up to ten foreign reporters during the week following the shooting down of the Malaysian aircraft . On 22 July 2014 , armed men from the DPR abducted Ukrainian freelance journalist Anton Skiba as he arrived with a CNN crew at a hotel in Donetsk . Non-governmental organisations , such as Amnesty International , said that pro-government volunteer paramilitary battalions , such as the Aidar Battalion , Donbas Battalion , Azov Battalion often acted like " renegade gangs " , and were implicated in torture , abductions , and summary executions . Amnesty International and the ( OHCHR ) also raised similar concerns about Radical Party leader and Ukrainian MP Oleh Lyashko and his militia
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