Valeriy Shelepa

Affiliated media: Berdychiv Dilovyi (Berdychiv Business), Editor

Incident date: March 23, 2017

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: National JournalistsUnion of Ukraine

Location: Ukraine, Zhytomyr Oblast, Berdychiv

Additional information:

Unknown young men approached Valeriy and started beating him. They hit him mostly in the head. When the journalist fell down, they continued beating him with legs, aiming at his head.