Georgy Gongadze remembered in Ukraine

Meetings took place on 16 September in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities, to mark the eleventh anniversary of the disappearance of journalist, Georgy Gongadze. 

In Kyiv near the President’s Administration, 200 people demanded completion of the investigation into the journalist’s murder. The participants gathered on Maidan Nezalezhnosti [Independence Square] , many of them held black silhouettes of Gongadze, as well as photos of former President Kuchma and current Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Lytven, with captions reading: “Those who ordered the murder [should be] behind bars.

A separate group held a banner reading: Georgy, we have not forgotten”.

The participants then moved in an orderly line towards the President’s Administration where they stopped near the iron railing on Bankova St where they put up a larger banner with Gongadze in black silhouette

In Kharkiv the meeting had added immediacy given the events of the last few days.  As reported, three independent channels in Kharkiv – A/TVC, For a and ATN have had their broadcasting cut with no explanation.  Many of the people who addressed the meeting spoke in defence of freedom of expression and views. 

see also:
• Myroslava Gongadze: “The Public should understand what criminals governed the country”
• CPJ: Gongadze suspect admits to killing, implicates Kuchma
• Gongadze Lawyer: Pukach acts as though he feels protected
• Gongadze murder: Material on Kravchenko returned to the Prosecutor General
• Myroslava Gongadze: They’ve taken away my right to know the motives of Pukach’s crime
• CPJ: Gongadze murder suspect’s trial should be open to public
• Gongadze Case: 150-page indictment behind closed doors
• Gongadze Lawyer: Where are the “State secrets” in the Pukach trial?
• Gongadze Lawyer: Pukach Case closed so that Journalists don’t hear to much
• One of the aggrieved parties in the Pukach trial kept out of the hearing