Denis Danko - Justice for Journalists

Denis Danko

Affiliated media: TV channel 1+1, Journalist

Incident date: February 5, 2020

Attack type:

  • Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: TV channel 1+1

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv

Additional information:

Law enforcement officers searched the apartments of the journalists and the editorial office of the Sekretni Materialy (X-Files) project. Searches were conducted by the home addresses of Denis Danko, Yevgeny Kuksin, and Alexander Nizovtsev, whose workplaces were searched in accordance with the Security Service of Ukraine decree. At the journalists' workplaces in the editorial office of the program, the law enforcement officers tried to find special wiretapping devices, with which the journalists allegedly listened to Prime Minister Aleksey Goncharuk. Security Service of Ukraine seized two computers, Danko’s and Kuksin’s.

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