Событие - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Skhemy (Joint project of the Radio Liberty and UA Pers hyi TV), TV crew

Incident date: November 7, 2017

Attack type:

  • Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Radio Svoboda

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv

Additional information:

People wearing masks and balaclavas were obstructing journalistic activity. They were beating, pushing the journalists. They knocked off the camera out of the cameraman's hands twice and blocked the car with the video recorder in order not to let the journalist film the arrival of Viktor Medveschuk's plane from Russia.

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