Vasyl Khomiuk

Affiliated media: Zhitomir.life, Journalist

Incident date: April 2, 2019

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Zhitomir.life

Location: Ukraine, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zhytomyr

Additional information:

A representative of a local transportation company attacked the journalists and tried to knock off the camera out of the cameraman's hands twice. Zhitomir. Life journalists arrived to film a news piece on the request of a local citizen. The story was about how a bus driver was refusing to take passengers with the 1st disability category for free. Although the journalists identified themselves, the driver attacked the cameraman and tried to knock off the camera out of his hands.