Yuriy Konkevych - Justice for Journalists

Yuriy Konkevych

Affiliated media: Racurs.ua, Journalist

Incident date: March 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 Oblast

Additional information:

Journalist of the Racurs.ua website Yuriy Konkevych has received 11 threatening emails from Russia since March 15 (as of April 16, 2022). The journalist said that on April 15, he, for the first time, received poetic threats from the user «Alexey Sazonov». Earlier, the editorial mail received a letter with the information that almost all the articles of Racurs.ua contained elements of a crime under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

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