{"id":586804,"date":"2022-04-03T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/03\/they-said-theyd-mutilate-and-kill-me-says-kidnapped-ukrainian-journalist"},"modified":"2022-04-03T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T05:00:11","slug":"they-said-theyd-mutilate-and-kill-me-says-kidnapped-ukrainian-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/03\/they-said-theyd-mutilate-and-kill-me-says-kidnapped-ukrainian-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They said they\u2019d mutilate and kill me,\u2019 says kidnapped Ukrainian journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian soldiers tortured Oleh Baturin and threatened to harm his family. Now released, he talks about his terrifying eight-day ordeal<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>Around lunchtime on 12 March, Oleh Baturin, a Ukrainian journalist in the occupied region of Kherson, received a phone call from an unknown number. It was the activist Serhiy Tsygipa. \u201cI really need to see you, I\u2019m ready to get to Kakhovka,\u201d he said calmly. They agreed to meet at 5pm at the city\u2019s bus station.<\/p><p>Having warned his family where he was going and who he was meeting, Baturin, 43, who works at the independent newspaper <em>Novyi Den<\/em> (New Day), left his ID and phone at home and went to the meeting place. But Tsygipa was not there. It was a trap. As he turned to go home, he heard a van door slam and the clatter of feet heading towards him. <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/03\/they-said-theyd-mutilate-and-kill-me-says-kidnapped-ukrainian-journalist\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/03\/they-said-theyd-mutilate-and-kill-me-says-kidnapped-ukrainian-journalist\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian soldiers tortured Oleh Baturin and threatened to harm his family. Now released, he talks about his terrifying eight-day ordealRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesAround lunchtime on 12 March, Oleh Baturin, a Ukrainian journalist in the occupied r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1311,6,793,94,10937,24,376,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586805,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586804\/revisions\/586805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}