inform.zp.ua - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: inform.zp.ua, Online media

Incident date: July 1, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Institute of Mass Information

Location: Ukraine, Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhya

Additional information:

The Zaporizhzhya editorial board of inform.zp.ua received two letters with poetic threats from Russia in the last week. A letter from the user «Elmira Afanasyeva» with the subject line «Very important!» was received by the editorial e-mail from the Russian service inbox.ru on July 1. In it, in poetic form, the author threatened the editorial staff with criminal liability for their journalistic activities. The letter read, in part, «The Russian army are liberators, conducting an operation to save you. And you, propagandist-disseminators, can’t escape criminal liability!».

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