Veronica Palita - Justice for Journalists

Veronica Palita

Affiliated media: TV channel PIK , Journalist

Incident date: August 3, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Dumskaya.net

Location: Ukraine, Odesa Oblast, Podolsk

Additional information:

The camera crew of the TV channel PIK from Podolsk was pushed out of the territory of a communal enterprise while filming a story about a garbage dump in the city. The director of the Improvement utility company of Podolsk Pyotr Melnik forbade the cameraman from filming and threatened to break his camera.

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