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| Outrage in Ukraine after Brutal Attack on Opposition Reporter |
| 2013-12-26 |
| [An Nahar] Unknown assailants have savagely beaten a dogged Ukrainian journalist who has taken part in pro-EU rallies, triggering outrage among the opposition locked in a confrontation with President Viktor Yanukovych. Tetyana Chornovil, who writes for the Ukrainska Pravda opposition website, was attacked overnight Tuesday outside the capital Kiev, police said in a statement, citing the journalist. The prominent journalist, known for her critical reports about Yanukovych and brass hats, was driving to Kiev when she noticed she was being followed by a car. "The driver of the suspicious car began to push her to the side. When she stopped, several men who were following her broke the back window of her car, pulled her out and started beating her," police said in a statement. "After that she was thrown into a ditch," police said, adding she was found next to her vehicle shortly after midnight. President Yanukovych condemned the attack and ordered Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko to find those responsible. Later in the day Zakharchenko said three suspects in the beating had been identified and two of them incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Police said its "most experienced" Sherlocks were probing the attack on the 34-year-old, who has participated in weeks-long pro-EU protests against Yanukovych. Chornovil herself said there were "at least two" assailants. "I started running, they began pursuing me," she said in video comments posted on the Ukrainska Pravda website. "They were hitting me on the head, they were not saying anything, they were just hitting," said the young woman, her face bruised and swollen. The news site said, citing relatives, that Chornovil was hospitalized with a broken nose, a concussion and multiple bruises. The attack on the journalist comes after a local pro-EU activist was stabbed in both thighs in the eastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday evening. The latest assault caused outrage among opposition leaders, who have been locked in a standoff with Yanukovych over his decision to scrap key political and free trade agreements with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... last month. Several hundred protesters on Wednesday gathered outside the seat of the interior minister, calling for his resignation. Some of the protesters held up pictures of Chornovil. "Today they nearly killed Tanya Chornovil and this should be the last drop of blood, the last manifestation of cruelty towards our people which we have all allowed through our inaction," locked away Please don't kill me! former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko said in a statement. "Police and bandidos together are roughing up those who do not suit the authorities -- that's what the dictatorial regimes in Africa and Latin America did," opposition politician Andriy Shevchenko said on Twitter. World boxing champion and opposition leader Vitali Klitschko posted on Twitter pictures of a bloodied Chornovil as well as of several journalists injured in recent festivities between protesters and police. "The price of freedom of the press in Ukraine now thx to the system put in place by our current government," said the message next to the pictures. The opposition has called for the resignation of Zakharchenko over police brutality and corruption but Yanukovych has refused to sack him. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Bet her costs are funded by the EUSSR i.e. extorted from the taxpayers of Europe. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-12-26 16:20 |
| #4 Tetyana Chornovil, who writes for the Ukrainska Pravda opposition website, was attacked overnight Tuesday outside the capital Kiev Did it happen outside a |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-12-26 11:29 |
| #3 Opponents of only one side Frank. It is now virtually de jure partisanism on the part of the "journalists". |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-12-26 08:38 |
| #2 journalists squandered any credibility by becoming de facto political opponents |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-12-26 08:10 |
| #1 In 20th century journalists received a quasi-sacred status---which they, and their fellow travelers in academia, used to turn a marginal political ideology into a mainstream. I'm glad that 21st century shapes up to be different. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-12-26 01:42 |