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Ondertussen vluchten kritische journalisten weg uit rusland omdat ze vrezen voor hun leven.

Wellicht volkomen terecht : je levert geen publieke kritiek op Putin en zijn aristocraten zonder daar vroeg of laat de prijs voor te betalen.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/4515883/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templa...led_in_Ukraine

Lijst met journalisten vermoord in Oekraïne.

The government continued to take controversial steps restricting media freedom, justifying them mostly by the need to counter Russia’s anti-Ukraine propaganda.
The Ukrainian Institute of Mass Media, an independent monitoring group, recorded 113 physical attacks against journalists in Ukraine in the first part of 2016.
In July, a car bomb killed Pavel Sheremet, a prominent investigative journalist. At time of writing, investigative authorities had not identified suspects. The trial of suspects in the 2015 killing of Oles Buzina, a journalist known for his pro-Russian views, continued.
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/201...apters/ukraine

Ukraine: Who Killed Journalist Pavel Sheremet?
Pavel Sheremet, a leading journalist, was killed in central Kyiv one year ago today when a bomb planted in his car exploded. We still don’t know who did it and why.
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko both promised on several occasions to do everything possible to find Sheremet’s killers. Yet we are no closer to knowing the truth than a year ago. What is clear is that there are many questions about the investigation, and Ukraine’s authorities have yet to provide convincing answers.
A team of journalists and researchers from the “Investigation.Info” project and the International Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project conducted their own investigation into Sheremet’s murder, revealing their findings in documentary “Killing Pavel.” They exposed major gaps in the official investigation, including the failure to identify and question several witnesses present at the crime scene before and during his car’s explosion. Investigators also disregarded key surveillance footage as evidence. A July report by the Committee to Protect Journalists also revealed glaring shortcomings in the authorities’ probe into the killing. All this poses questions about the authorities’ ability and willingness to conduct a rigorous and effective investigation.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/20/...pavel-sheremet


Ukraine: New Law Targets Anti-Corruption Activists, Journalists

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/05/...ts-journalists

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