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Place of Birth: Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
About Stanislav Aseyev
- Stanislav Aseyev (Ukrainian: ????????? ????????????? ?????; born September 30, 1989) is a Ukrainian writer and journalist.
- His best known work is the novel The Melchior Elephant (2016).
- In May 2014 his native city of Donetsk fell under control of pro-Russian militants and he remained there.
- During the period of 2015–2017 Stanislav was publishing his reports (writing under the pen name Stanislav Vasin) for Mirror Weekly newspaper and other Ukrainian media, before 2 June 2017, when he disappeared.
- On 16 July, an agent of the DNR’s “Ministry of State Security” confirmed that he was kidnapped by militants from so-called Donetsk People's Republic.Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists, the European Federation of Journalists, Human Rights Watch, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, PEN International, Reporters Without Borders and the United States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have called for his immediate release.
- The US Senators Bob Menendez and Marco Rubio have also voiced their support for Aseyev.
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