TV channel ZiK - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: TV channel ZiK, TV channel

Incident date: February 2, 2021

Attack type:

Selective application of repressive laws

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv

Additional information:

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree on the imposition of sanctions against a group of legal entities that manage TV channels 112 Ukraine, NewsOne, and ZiK. According to the decree, which comes into force from the moment of its signing, sanctions applied to the TV channels for five years make their broadcasting impossible. The TV channels have already disappeared from the TV screens of Ukrainian viewers and are currently only broadcast online.

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