Событие Volodymyr Torbich - Justice for Journalists

Volodymyr Torbich

Affiliated media: Journalist Investigations Agency , Chief Editor

Incident date: August 15, 2017

Attack type:

  • Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: IMI- Institute for Mass Information

Location: Ukraine, Rivne Oblast, Rivne

Additional information:

Rivne Department of the Security Service of Ukraine demanded financial reports on grant spending from the local investigative journalists. In terms of that grant, journalists helped to gather information about suspicious financial operations of the deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine Pavlo Demchyna.

Help Ukrainian Media:

Gofundme campaign (by Jakub Parusinski) or 2402.org (by Zaborona Media) or IFJ/EFJ Safety Fund