Dear Mr. Poroshenko,The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is concerned about the safety of journalists in your country and we strongly urge you as president to make sure that your government and all its institutions react to threats and violence against journalists.
The ECPMF writes a letter to Petro Poroshenko - President of Ukraine (photo: Kathrin Möbius, CC BY 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9807120)
The background for this letter are several incidents this summer:
On September 4th, one of the most popular TV stations in Ukraine, Inter TV, suffered an arson attack after weeks of threats in…