News agency Begemot - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: News agency Begemot , Journalist

Incident date: April 28, 2020

Attack type:

  • Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: News agency Begemot

Location: Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Pavlograd

Additional information:

Security guards refused to admit journalists of the Begemot and Our Pavlograd news agencies to the session of the Pavlograd City Council. The security guard could not present any orders or normative documents stating that journalists are not allowed to the plenary session. Eduard Stanko, the editor of the Nash Pavlograd website, called the police and filed a report about illegal impediments to journalistic activities.

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