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Kuchma again got to the list of enemies of the press
15.12.2003
The organization "Reporters without frontiers" published their annual report on the state of the freedom of the press in 2002 in 156 countries and the list of 42 main enemies of the press. President Leonid Kuchma was included to this list again.
The lawsuit between MP P. Kuzmenko and the Uman newspaper „Vulyk“ will continue in the Supreme Court
15.12.2003
On 7 April the Cherkassy appeal court confirmed the legality of the decision issued by the Uman town court on the claim of MP Petro Kuzmenko against the newspaper "Vulyk". The editorial board of the newspaper is going to turn to the Supreme Court.
Who dares to protest against the Iraq war?
15.12.2003
A lecturer of the university expected that she would have the problems as a result of public expression of her opinions. And she was not mistaking.
On the attitude of the Odessa mayors office to journalists and opposition
15.12.2003
The three-day preventive strike of the opposition finished in Odessa. The participants demanded to cancel the decision on the increase of the tariffs for communal services, to resume the round-the-clock provision of hot water and to dismiss city mayor. The city authorities refused to comment this action.
Journalists got the proposition to abandon pseudonyms.
15.12.2003
The Head of the Supreme Rada Committee in charge of the freedom of speech and information, declared that MPs proposed to journalists to sign their articles with their own names.
Correspondent of the newspaper "Krymskie novosti" was brutally beaten by strangers.
15.12.2003
In the evening of 11 April in Simferopol two strangers brutally beat Aleksey Ermolin, a correspondent of the Crimean informational-analytical weekly "Krymskie novosti". The collective of the editorial board does not exclude the version that the attack was provoked by Ermolins professional activities.
The prosecutors office interrogated editor of "Antenna" Valeriy Vorotnik on the case of anti-President publications.
15.12.2003
The publications on Presidents connection with the murder of G. Gongadze are interpreted as meddling into Presidents activities.
14.12.2003
The editor of the Kremenchug newspaper "Informbulleten" is interrogated in the connection with her article "Million dollars for the head of Georgiy Gongadze!" Some official documents concerning this case are enclosed.
A conclusion of Human Rights Watch: directives of Presidents Administration is a concealed form of censorship.
14.12.2003
The review of Human Rights Watch report "Struggle around news: The unofficial state censorship at the Ukrainian TV".
German police got the permission to wiretap the telephone conversations of journalists.
14.12.2003
German police has the right to wiretap the telephones of journalists during the investigation of grave crimes, if it is necessary for the search of especially dangerous criminals. This decision was issued on 12 March by the Constitutional Court of Federal Republic of Germany.
Journalist V. Boyko demands to recompense the moral damage.
14.12.2003
Journalist Vladimir Boyko turned to the prosecutors office of the Donetsk oblast with the claim about recompensing the moral damage inflicted to him by the illegal arrest and torture applied to him in the preliminary prison.
Authorities against „Ukrainske Slovo“
14.12.2003
A judge of the Rivne town court and a deputy of Rivne prosecutor, demand to recompense them the moral damage. The damage was inflicted by making public the results of the journalist investigation, in which the claimants are suspected of the participation in falsifying a criminal case, applying illegal investigation methods, exerting moral pressure and using threats and torture for obtaining evidence.
The General Prosecutors office responded to the request of MP M. Tomenko about „Order of the Ministry of transport of Ukraine No. ?61/4-O of 18 December 2002 on the introduction of information censorship on transport“
14.12.2003
The General Prosecutors office conducted the check and found some violations.
Severodonetsk prosecutor drove journalists out from the press conference
14.12.2003
The press conference of the coordination council of the law-enforcing organs hold in the prosecutors office lasted for 5 minutes. This may be regarded as a new record of the duration of such meetings in Ukraine.
Editor of the newspaper „“ was recognized as guilty of the crime of medium gravity
14.12.2003
On 5 February a judge of the Sosnovskiy district court of Cherkassy proclaimed the verdict on the case of Oleg Liashko, the editor of the newspaper „Svoboda“. The court recognized Liashko as guilty of crime of „medium gravity“ – resistance to law-enforcers – and obliged him to pay a fine.
A partner of the publishing house „Taki spravy“ is still staying behind the bars
14.12.2003
On 21 December the judicial chamber in charge of criminal cases of the Appeal court of Kyiv considered the complaint of advocates Bogdan Ferents and Valeriy Kornilov against the verdict of the Solomenski court of Kyiv concerning Valentin Romanov, a partner of the publishing house „Taki spravy“. The court satisfied the complaint partly. V. Romanov was condemned to six and a half years of incarceration.
The fund „Opened society“ intends to turn to the Supreme Rada in the connection with making secret the information about the attendance of MPs at their working place
14.12.2003
The conflict between Chernivtsi journalists and the power
13.12.2002
The representatives of the oblast and town mass media turned to the President of Ukraine, heads of force structures and ombudsperson Nina Karpacheva. The journalists insist that the open pressure is exerted upon the journalists and editors of the oblast mass media. The main culprit, in their opinion is Teofil Bauer, the oblast governor.
For the first time in the Crimea a journalist won the trial against town authorities.
13.12.2002
The editor of the newspaper “Alubika”, won the trial against the mayor of Alupka, a small Crimean town. The court obliged Alupka mayor Valeriy Andik to accredit the journalist to the town council and to render the journalist all information he needed for his work.
The authorities continue to persecute the only Crimean Ukrainian-language newspaper
13.12.2002
In spite of the personal Presidents order the local authorities continue to oppress the newspaper “Krymska svitlytsia”.
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