US condemns 'disturbing' beating of Ukraine opposition journalist.

[another_liberal]

Source: Al Jazeera America



The United States on Thursday expressed concern over the targeting of journalists and activists taking part in pro-EU rallies in Ukraine, calling the savage beating of one opposition journalist "particularly disturbing." Opposition leaders have been locked in a standoff with President Viktor Yanukovich over his decision to scrap key political and free trade agreements with the European Union last month. "The United States expresses its grave concern over an emerging pattern of targeted violence and intimidation towards activists and journalists who participated in or reported on the EuroMaidan protests," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a release. "The violent beating of journalist Tetyana Chornovil is particularly disturbing," she said.

Hundreds of protesters clutching pictures of Chornovil's badly bruised face marched on the Interior Ministry in Kiev, demanding Ukraine's interior minister, Vitaly Zakharchenko, resign Thursday. The attack on Chornovil, shortly after midnight on Wednesday, came hours after she posted pictures online of what she said was Zakharchenko's home, part of a campaign to expose the opulence of the political elite under Yanukovich. Chornovil, who has played an active role in the protests, shot to prominence last year when she infiltrated the grounds of Yanukovich's opulent residence in a park near the Dnieper River.

She has since posted more photographs of homes of other senior officials, Zakharchenko was her target on Tuesday. Hours after she posted the picture to her blog, she was allegedly attacked.


Read more: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/26/us-condemns-disturbingbeatingofukraineoppositionjournalist.html

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Some may call this assault on a prominent, muck-raking newswoman nothing more than an odd coincidence. I am not buying that, not at all!

[dipsydoodle]

1. "allegedly attacked"

There's no doubt whatsoever she was attacked.

Outrage as Ukrainian opposition journalist found roughly beaten near Kiev.

A road police patrol found the badly beaten opposition journalist, Tetyana Chornovil, in a ditch outside Kiev. Ukrainian authorities, leaders of the opposition and foreign officials are demanding an immediate and thorough investigation into the crime.

On Wednesday night, law enforcement officers found a Chevrolet Aveo ‘parked’ in a ditch on the highway connecting the Ukrainian capital and Borispol international airport. Inside the car, they found journalist Tetyana Chornovi, who had been badly beaten up. They immediately took her to a hospital for treatment.

A video later showed an unconscious woman with bruising over half her face, swollen lips and cuts across her cheeks. Medics applied several stitches to the journalist’s face and said she had suffered concussion and multiple broken bones. The 34-year-old journalist might require at least three operations.

By evening, Chornovil was still said to be in a serious condition, the ‘Ukrainian News’ news agency reported. Still she managed to make several comments about the incident, and a criminal investigation was immediately launched.

http://rt.com/news/ukraine-opposition-journalist-beaten-788/

btw - happened two days ago on Christmas day.

[another_liberal]

2. Some details of the attack . . .

Here are some details of the attack, as described by Tetyana Chornovil herself:

Chornovil was chased on a road outside the capital. A dashboard camera on her car captured a black Porsche Cayenne ramming into her car before at least two men jumped out. Next, according to the police report, the journalist was pulled from her car, beaten on the head and thrown into a ditch.

"When a very, very posh car is ramming you first on the side, then from behind, then from the front you understand that they've been paid already for your life," a beaten and bloodied Chornovil told local television station Channel 5, laying on a hospital bed.

The attack came after a local pro-EU activist was stabbed in both thighs in the eastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday evening.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

3. Beating a Ukranian journalist = rebuike. Beating G8, WTO, Occupy protestors on our own soil

not even a whimper.

Let me be the first to tell the US Government to STFU until they stop this against its own citizens.

[levp]

4. We

(as in DU) can, and should, condemn both.

[Kolesar]

5. Today on DU: The US should not complain about a Putin-backed government beating a journalist

Pathetic

[Kolesar]

6. You must have been too busy to answer me

time to hate the Prez

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=701089