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Statement of the Ukrainian Centre of the International PEN Club
02.09.2012
in connection with the systematic persecution of independent television broadcasting in Ukraine
TVi journalists turn to the Ukrainian public and international bodies
31.08.2012
They ask for assistance in making it clear to the President and Ukrainian authorities that the present measures aimed at radically reducing access to this independent television channel and possibly forcing it into bankruptcy are an unacceptable attack on freedom of speech
Ukrainian press freedom in the spotlight
31.08.2012
Despite concerns about press freedom in Ukraine, organizers of the World Newspaper Congress beginning in Kyiv, as well as Ukrainian and international participants are against a boycott.
Journalist Union opens hot line to report cases of pressure during the elections
31.08.2012
Ukraine’s National Union of Journalists is ready to provide legal assistance to its colleagues and to draw the public’s attention to cases where journalists’ professional activities are obstructed.
Party of the Regions gets vastly more broadcasting time than opposition
30.08.2012
During the first three weeks of the election campaign the ruling Party of the Regions was absolute leader in broadcasting coverage throughout Ukraine, with an all-out record reached in the Donetsk oblast where the ruling party had 99.3% of coverage against 0.7% for all other political parties
Glavnoye’s file server removed during police search
30.08.2012
While police claim that they searched a bank suspected of illegal transactions, their search included a business owned by prominent opposition figure Arsen Avakov, wanted on supposed “abuse of power charges and a publication often highly critical of the authorities
Search again underway of Kharkiv publication Glavnoye
28.08.2012
With elections not far off, the Internet publication and newspaper Glavnoye has again been subjected to a search, together with a business owned by popular opposition politician Arsen Avakov who faces prosecution on abuse of power charges if he returns to Ukraine
“Most journalists in the regions are in fact State Administration employees”
28.08.2012
Interview with Dementiy Bily, Head of the Kherson Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine regarding the situation with commissioned material in the Kherson regional media
Party of the Regions sues newspaper over administrative resource allegations
27.08.2012
The lawyer for the website Grechka says that he is baffled as to why an economic court should be hearing this case, and why a suit so full of mistakes was accepted
TVi demands that the Prosecutor take measures against Triolan
27.08.2012
The beleaguered independent TV channel TVi has carried out its own investigation into the activities of the cable provider Triolan and has passed the information on to the Prosecutor
Tetyana Chornovol detained after entering Mezhyhirya
25.08.2012
On 24 August well-known journalist and parliamentary candidate Tetyana Chornovol got inside the vast estate of Mezhyhirya, President Yanukovych’s residence, after which contact was lost.
Owner of billboards critical of the government fined
25.08.2012
The Dniprodzerzhynsk City Council has cancelled the permit issued for external advertising to the owner of the poster where an elderly lady says she decided to leave everything to her cat when her grandson voted for the Party of the Regions and others
State-run UTV-1 breaks all records for commissioned reporting
22.08.2012
Telekritika’s regular monitoring of news programmes of national television channels has found that in the first week of July the State-owned First National TV Channel [UTV-1] earned an ignominious first with 51 news items which bore the hallmarks of commissioned reporting.
TVi accuses Broadcasting Council over removal from cable networks
16.08.2012
TVi has been removed from air in both Donetsk and Mariupol, with this coming after the actions of the provider Triolan which deprived some 200 thousand viewers in 11 cities of access to the independent TV channel
Government must condemn killing of Volodymyr Honcharenko as crime against free expression
16.08.2012
ARTICLE 19 calls on the Ukrainian government to publicly condemn the killing of environmental information activist, Volodymyr Honcharenko as a crime against free speech and ensure that those responsible are brought to justice via an independent and transparent process
Access denied to independent TVi in Donetsk
15.08.2012
The cable TV operator DonStatTV has announced, following others, that it is stopping broadcasting programmes of the independent TV channel TVi in its networks.
Italian court finds no grounds for Melnychenko’s extradition
15.08.2012
Former Presidential guard Mykola Melnychenko has been released from a Naples prison where he was being held following an extradition request from Ukraine
“You Have the Right to Know” website forced out of Ukraine
15.08.2012
The host company has broken its contract with the website “You Have the Right to Know” claiming that this is a political party or movement, effectively because it writes about politics. The website, in order to ensure the safety of its data, is being forced out of Ukraine.
Knyazhytsky invites regional channels to broadcast beleaguered TVi material for free
14.08.2012
As reported, following questionable moves by the provider Triolan which came close on the heels of an attempt to bring charges of tax evasion against TVi’s Director, at very least 200 thousand Ukrainian viewers have been deprived of access to the chann
Broadcasting Council keeps out of “conflict” between TVi and Triolan
14.08.2012
The Council claims that it cannot “interfere” in the election period although it was precisely on the eve of the election period that around 200 thousand viewers were deprived of access to virtually the last remaining independent TV channel.
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