TV channel TV8 - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: TV channel TV8, Female journalists

Incident date: October 1, 2021

Attack type:

Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Moldova, Chisinau

Additional information:

Vladimir Voronin, a member of Parliament and former president of Moldova, made offensive sexist remarks about female journalists at TV8. «They switch from one man to another, and these are the TV8 girls», – Voronin said when a TV8 journalist tried to ask him a question.

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