On April IMI identified 14 violations of press freedom

(photo credits: InsideSource) On April, IMI experts has recorded 14 violations of press freedom in Ukraine. Of these, 11 incidents were cases of physical aggression. These are findings of the monthly survey “Freedom of Press Barometer” issued by the Institute of Mass Information. The main category of violations of journalists’ rights became incidents involving obstruction […]

Not only election raises legal issues for journalists – IMI lawyer

Photo credits: UNSW current students The election raised several legal issues among the journalists, and on April 2019 the IMI lawyers Riman Holovenko and Ali Safarov provided with legal assistance relative to these issues to the journalists. But not only election campaign raised legal questions, as Ali Safarov told. As he reported, for instance, in […]

RSF urged Ukrainian authorities to ensure that attack against Vadym Komarov does not go unpunished

Photo credits: taken from RSF’s web-site Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by last weekend’s brutal attack on Ukrainian citizen-journalist Vadym Komarov in broad daylight in the centre of Cherkasy, a city 190 km southeast of Kyiv, as to RSF statement made public on May 7th. RSF “calls on the authorities to do their utmost […]

6 cases over journalists’ rights violations referred to court by police in the last 4 months

Photo credits: https://anh-usa.org Since last 4 months, the investigation officers of the National police have instituted prejudicial inquiry into 63 delicts committed against professional journalists, as to the communicative department of the National police. Based on the conclusions of the investigation, 6 criminal indictments have been referred to the bar, 52 criminal cases have been […]