The State Customs Service is in “ruins”: “there is no hierarchy, there is uncontrollability of the system, systemic corruption schemes,” Danylo Hetmantsev, head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy, has said. “There is a problem. And this problem is being treated according to a clear recipe, but this recipe needs to…
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The French human rights organization, Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience, recently reported on the ongoing persecution of a Ukrainian family of psychologists, Iefym and Halyna Shabshai. The Shabshai family had to leave their company in Ukraine due to the hostilities unleashed by the Russian Federation and are now seeking…
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Ukrainian police have detained five people, including a paediatric surgeon and a rock musician, over a 2016 car bomb attack that killed the investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet. Senior law enforcement officials said the motive for killing 44-year-old Pavel Sheremet was to destabilise the country but declined to say who might have ordered the murder. “In…
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According to the minister, the responsibility of the authorities is to ensure that Ukrainians reduce consumption of disinformation. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Volodymyr Borodyanskiy has said 90% of Ukrainians cannot tell fake from truth. “We have been at war for five years. This is a complex war. This is an unusual war. It…
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An Indonesian journalist hit in the face by a rubber bullet during protests in Hong Kong has been permanently blinded in one eye, her lawyer has said, in what is the most serious injury among members of the media since the movement began in June. There are growing concerns about the threat to journalists from…
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The IFJ is to launch a 3-week campaign to expose the staggering levels of impunity for crimes against journalists and the lack of international action to combat the rising tide of threats and abuse faced by journalists worldwide. The campaign will kick-off on 2 November marking International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against…
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Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. (Quai d’Orsay/Frédéric de La Mure ) VIENNA, 31 October 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, stressed today the need to protect journalists and prosecute those responsible for crimes committed against them, on the occasion of the upcoming International Day to…
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Transparency Germany, the PEN Centre Germany, Reports without Borders Germany and Amnesty International Germany call for greater space and security for civil society Frankfurt am Main – Transparency International Germany, the PEN Centre Germany, Reporters Without Borders Germany and Amnesty International Germany today called on the German Federal Government to work at the national and…
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the French judicial authorities to reject a European Investigation Order (EIO) issued by Bulgaria that targets Atanas Tchobanov, a Bulgarian journalist resident in France. RSF fears that this arbitrary order could threaten the confidentiality of journalistic sources. The editor of the Bulgarian investigative news website Bivol, Tchobanov learned on 2…
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