Executed Free Speech: exhibition of journalists’ testimonies about war crimes opened in Kyiv

Testimonies of Ukrainian journalists about russia’s war crimes formed the basis of the exhibition titled Executed Free Speech, opened by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War on Thursday.

The opening of the exhibition was attended by Acting Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Rostyslav Karandieiev.

“In war, not only soldiers get killed, it also refers to those who go to the front-line with a camera, those who have to record and convey to us what is happening on the front, so that we feel our solidarity with them,” Rostislav Karandieiev emphasized.

He expressed his condolences to the journalists who gave their lives, fighting for Victory with their “weapons” – a video camera, camera, and a pen.

“I thank the NUJU, which shows leadership in highlighting the problems in the journalistic environment. The implementation of the state information policy is impossible without you, journalists,” added the acting minister.

Among the exhibits are the personal belongings of the killed journalists Maks Levin, Ivan Shulha, freelancer Bohdan Bitik, and many more journalists killed or held hostage by the occupiers.

During the opening, the President of the NUJU, Sergiy Tomilenko, emphasized the need to document the crimes of the occupiers so that international courts could then make fair decisions based on them.

The organizers of the exhibition are the NUJU, with the support of the civil rights defender organization Civil Rights Defenders (Sweden); the network of NUJU‘s Journalists’ Solidarity Centers operating with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists, as well as UNESCO; and the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.

The coordinator of the Executed Free Speech initiative is the First Secretary of the NUJU, Lina Kushch, and the curator of the exhibition is Valeriya Parkhomenko.

Further information will follow up.

NUJU Information Service