The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) asked the acting president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski, calling for the free work of journalists and media in Ukraine. CPJ demands that journalists liable for bullying should not stay unpunished. The letter is simply a consequence to many incidents of pressure, intimidation and surveillance that media representatives encounter in Ukraine.
"We are increasingly afraid about signals indicating an unjustified effort by the Ukrainian government to control the media and suppress investigative journalism. Over the past year, our investigation and detailed discussions with local journalists show a pattern of unjustified restrictions and another interventions that limit free press activities and yet harm the democracy you intend to defend."
The CPJ further lists the fresh "disturbing incidents". According to Ginsberg, these include:
"Pressia, intimidation and supervision: respective Ukrainian investigative journalists have been supervised and intimidated by officials in connection with their work. In addition, journalists seeking press accreditation had previously told CPJ (in 2023) that they were interviewed by the Ukrainian safety Service and pressured them to follow circumstantial approaches in their reports.
Non-responsibility: No 1 was held liable for threatening investigative writer Yuri Nikolav in January. Similarly, no results of surveillance investigations were announced, reported in January at Bihus.info's investigative service, or an effort to deliver an investigative writer to judaic Shulhat a military call in retaliation for his work in April.”
In addition, the CPJ expressed concern about the draft law, which is presently being debated by the ultimate Council of Ukraine, and which may exacerbate penalties for publishing information from public databases during the martial law. In CPJ's assessment, this could jeopardise the work of investigative journalists.
An open letter was published in any Ukrainian media. So far there is no authoritative consequence of the Zelenski administration.
Przemysław Piasta
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