Maryana Metelskaya - Justice for Journalists

Maryana Metelskaya

Affiliated media: Volyn Online , Editor

Incident date: April 15, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: The Institute of Mass Information (IMI)

Location: Ukraine, Volyn Oblast, Volyn

Additional information:

Maryana Metelskaya, the Volyn Online news website editor, said that she had received at least six threatening letters. On April 15, the editorial mail received a letter from the user «Alexey Sazonov» with the poem «The Russian soldiers are liberators, leading an operation to save lives. And you, propagandists-distributors, cannot escape responsibility for your crimes». Maryana Metelska also received threatening letters on April 13.

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