LVIV. May 13 (Interfax) - Lviv journalist Yuriy Lelyavskiy has been freed following a two week-long period of captivity in Slovyansk in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
Lelyavskiy said at a press conference in Lviv on Monday that he was detained on April 25 by the local militia just hours following his arrival as he was about to interview people on the barricades. He said his Lviv residence registration was the most likely reason for his detention.
Lelyavskiy said he had been in captivity for 15 days and did not know the circumstances of his release.
The journalist also said that he had been kept in the basement of the Ukrainian Security Service building, and that he was provided with home-made meals in small amounts and with tea. "I shared a cell with a policeman and than I was joined by a Ukrainian serviceman," he said.
Rights campaigners earlier said that several reporters, among them journalist of the Zik online newspaper Lelyavskiy, had been detained in Slovyansk.