Mariya Petruchik

Affiliated media: Avers, Journalist

Incident date: May 8, 2019

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: YouTube (TRK Avers)

Location: Ukraine, Volyn Oblast

Additional information:

Avers TV channel journalists on assign- ment tried to talk to the customs officers. For that, they had to come to the customs department head's birthday party. Unsatisfied customs workers used force against the journalists, pushed them out of the building. Afterward, they took away the reporters' phones and smashed the camera.