Eduard Gurvits on Igor Aleksandrov’s death
13.12.2001
’The situation with the protection of citizens’ lives and rights remains critical in Ukraine. It concerns not only journalists. Millions of people feel themselves unprotected. It becomes especially vivid when journalists are attacked.
The fact of murdering for a word, opinion or conviction is especially unbearable.
The country must do everything possible to ensure citizens that they are reliably protected, that the crimes of this kind will be uncovered by all means and the criminals will be punished. Nowadays it is not so. People see that even the most loud crimes, when politicians and journalists, the most well-known people in the country, perished, are uncovered up to now... All this causes great alarm’.
The fact of murdering for a word, opinion or conviction is especially unbearable.
The country must do everything possible to ensure citizens that they are reliably protected, that the crimes of this kind will be uncovered by all means and the criminals will be punished. Nowadays it is not so. People see that even the most loud crimes, when politicians and journalists, the most well-known people in the country, perished, are uncovered up to now... All this causes great alarm’.