TVA TV channel - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: TVA TV channel, TV channel

Incident date: January 11, 2020

Attack type:

Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Ukraine, Chernivtsi Oblast, Chernivtsi

Additional information:

The premises of the business centre, where the TVA TV channel is located, was searched by the capital's department of the State Fiscal Service. According to the director of TVA, Vadim Pelekh, the investigators presented a warrant to search a company that was in no way connected with TVA but at the same time tried to seize the channel's servers.

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