Событие Artem Pakhol - Justice for Journalists

Artem Pakhol

Affiliated media: Oblychchia Vlady, Journalist

Incident date: April 23, 2019

Attack type:

  • Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Detector.media

Location: Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Dnipro

Additional information:

Security Police worker first blocked the journalist in a corridor of the prosecutor's office, and by that obstructed his professional activity. After that, an unidentified prosecutor's office worker ordered the police to deal with the journalist. Then the officer attacked the journalist, hit his camera, tried to grab it, and push the journalist out of the building.

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