Victoria Maximova - Justice for Journalists

Victoria Maximova

Affiliated media: TV channel Pryamiy , Journalist

Incident date: October 27, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: TV channel Pryamiy

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv Oblast

Additional information:

The camera crew of the Pryamiy TV channel was denied access to the meeting of the territorial election commission of the Borshchavskaya Unified Territorial Community (Kyiv Oblast). The guard who was standing in the doorway said that the working hours are over, so no one should be allowed to enter the building. Later, journalists managed to enter.

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