CU SENS - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: CU SENS, Media project

Incident date: May 3, 2021

Attack type:

Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Location: Moldova, Comrat

Additional information:

After the publication of a journalistic investigation, Ukrainian millionaire Mykola Lutsyk filed a lawsuit against the editorial board of the media project CU SENS for allegedly spreading his personal data.

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