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Whose circus, Mr Prime Minister?

23.05.13 | Halya Coynash
The government can’t get anything right. On Wednesday Prime Minister Azarov threw out women journalists trying through a totally peaceful protest to remind him that it could be his wife or daughter who gets attracked with the police watching on and doing nothing, as happened with their colleague Olha Snitsarchuk

Interior Minister blames opposition for attack on journalists

22.05.13
With journalist Olha Snitsarchuk able to identify her assailant on Saturday and explain exactly how the police simply watched, despite repeated calls for help, Interior Minister Zakharchenko could not come out looking good. He did not need to make himself and the police look even worse.

More condemnation of police inaction as journalists attacked

22.05.13
“Any further delay in investigating the attackers, at least some of whom are apparently known to the authorities, is an abandonment of the authorities’ responsibility to ensure the safe and unhindered work of journalists and contributes to impunity of those who attack them.”

Journalists protest over „antifascist” assaults and police inaction

21.05.13
Over 150 journalists held a protest on Monday following the attack on Olha Snitsarchuk and Vladyslav Sodel on Saturday by so-called antifascists öðøñð took place in full view of police officers who did not intervene despite being asked for help (and clearly needing it).

Thugs assault journalists while police look on

In full view of the police Olha Snitsarchuk from TV Channel 5 and Vladyslav Sodel a Kommersant Ukraine photographer were beaten by unidentified louts. The police did not intervene despite being asked for protection several times by the journalists.

Divide and Rule Indefinitely

07.05.13 | Halya Coynash
Those who orchestrated the recent hatchet-job on TVi probably counted on demoralization and division within the channel and beyond. They may have misfired

IMI: 2012 record-breakingly awful for journalists

04.05.13
2012 saw a record 324 recorded violations of journalists’ rights, with this being the largest number over the last 10 years. Only some 5% of those responsible face any penalties

Violence worse, impunity absolute

04.05.13
On 3 May 2013, Press Freedom Day, Ukraine came in for some well-earned and damning criticism and the US Helsinki Commission called for a proper investigation into the murder of Volodymyr Honcharenko, well-known environmentalist and editor of an environmental newspaper.

30 TVi journalists resign

03.05.13
The group of TVi journalists who on 23 April announced a strike over the apparent seizure of the last independent TV channel in Ukraine have now handed in their resignations.

International concern grows over situation at TVi

29.04.13
Reporters without Borders has condemned the sudden change in management at TVi, while the International Federation of Journalists has backed the strike by TVi staff and called for transparent and regulated media ownership in the country.

TVi Journalists present their demands

25.04.13
Following the dramatic events on Tuesday at TVi, the journalists on strike have formed a trade union, headed by Mustafa Nayem and have issued their demands. The current situation is of immense concern and the demands are given here in full

TVi : Effective Hatchet Job?

24.04.13
There is general bemusement as to what actually happened on 23 April, but the suspicion is widespread that this is a new attempt to crush the last more or less independent TV channel in the country

TVi journalists’ statement

24.04.13
Journalists of TVi, virtually the only relatively independent TV channel left in Ukraine, are on strike after a day of scandal and conflicting reports. The following is the statement issued on Tuesday evening after the journalists were prevented from broadcasting it on their own channel.

UHHRU condemns attempts to stifle pluralism among bar lawyers

The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union has issued a statement expressing concern over recent events concerning the Ukrainian Bar.

Journalists obstructed, activists detained outside President’s scandalous residence

11.04.13
A TVi film crew, who went together with Democratic Alliance activists, to investigate how the authorities were fighting the flood used as justification for banning yet another peaceful demonstration, encountered problems from the police, not the elements.

Secret road repairs

10.04.13
The Internet site Prestupnosti.net reports that on 8 April, before a visit by President Yanukovych, Mykolaiv police officers tried to detain a journalist photographing road repairs.

4 brutal attacks on journalists in March

04.04.13 | imi.org.ua
While detentions are taking place and Party of the Regions MPs claiming attempted murder over a snowball onslaught, those who attack journalists go unpunished and sometimes unimpeded by police officers

Terms of imprisonment upheld for anti-Yanukovych graffiti

29.03.13
The Sumy Regional Court of Appeal has upheld the sentences against two young men, one of whom was charged only with posting the Yanukovych placard here.

Defence Minister backs off

29.03.13
In an extraordinary defamation suit Pavlo Lebedev had demanded 10 thousand USD from a journalist, and that the court restrict her movements and freeze her immoveable assets

Road Control activist jailed for not handing over his licence

Maxim Mahera from the civic watchdog which monitors drivers’ rights Dorozhny Kontrol [Road Control] has been jailed for three days even though the road code no longer requires that the document be handed over, simply shown

  

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