February 23, 2019

23/2/2019: UKRAINE – CONCERN ABOUT SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS

Vienna, 23 February 2019

According to information before the Vienna South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) Denis Bihus, editor-in-chief of the Kiev-based independent investigative news outlet Bihus.Info, reported that he and members of his team noticed several unidentified persons monitoring their activity Also Schemes, an investigative journalism TV program published a report detailing how reporter Mykhailo Tkach and his staff member were followed in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. According to the journalists they the vehicles used belongs to a security company owned by a Ukrainian billionaire and former member of parliament. TV programme Schemes: Corruption in Details, is a leading investigative journalistic project jointly run by public broadcaster UA:Pershyi and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.