Journalists will learn about RF’s crimes against media (ANNOUNCEMENT)

The Center for Civil Liberties, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, invites journalists to cover the topic of crimes committed by the Russian Federation against media workers since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

Venue: Ukraine Crisis Media Center (2 Khreshchatyk Street, Kyiv)

Date: June 2, 2023

Time: 3 p.m.

Speakers:

• Sergiy Tomilenko, the President of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU);
• Svitlana Ostapa, deputy editor-in-chief of the Detector Media online publication/head of the supervisory board at Suspilne;
• Serhii Movchan, the head of the Center of Documenting War Crimes of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU);
• Anna Popova, a project manager at the Center for Civil Liberties.

Moderator: executive director of the Center for Civil Liberties Oleksandra Romantsova.

Press conference topics:

• Is it possible to name the exact number of media workers killed while performing their duties?
• How many journalists and other media workers were killed while serving in the army?
• How do the occupiers destroy newsrooms and broadcasting facilities, such as TV and radio towers?
• How often do media workers take the enemy’s side and become collaborators?

For reference:

Since February 24, 2022, more than 500 crimes have been committed against journalists and the media by the aggressor country in the territory of Ukraine. At least 15 journalists of the temporarily occupied Crimea are behind bars for cases fabricated under terrorist law articles or articles about storing weapons or explosives.

The Center for Civil Liberties, together with its partners, initiated the creation of a unique system in which human rights organizations throughout the country document war crimes, including those against journalists, public activists, and representatives of local self-government bodies.

The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) is a global initiative created by Ukrainian NGOs in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has been accompanied by a large number of war crimes since its inception. Currently, more than 41,000 war crimes have been recorded in the database.

The initiative actively works at the international level to use the existing mechanisms of the UN, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the EU, and the International Criminal Court to stop crimes and punish the guilty.

Register here: https://forms.gle/uRZEYiWxqrCaJ2rn7

Mass media should contact: Khrystyna Buchkovska, 096 137 6799 (phone, WhatsApp).