Событие Sofiya Kalnytska - Justice for Journalists

Sofiya Kalnytska

Affiliated media: NewsOne, Journalist

Incident date: November 21, 2018

Attack type:

  • Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Newsone.ua

Location: Ukraine, Kharkiv Oblast, Kharkiv

Additional information:

Several seconds before the live broadcasting a man approached the journalist, started touching her microphone, said she was a Russian agent and she should have better gone. He started pushing her away from activists. Later another man joined him and started punching the journalist's microphone.

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