Poroshenko silenced the main opposition website in Odessa
Odessa
In Odessa, the main opposition website of the city, Timer, has not been working for the second day, in the apartments of whose journalists yesterday the SBU conducted searches, and then took the reporters for interrogation.
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Timer employees are being tested as witnesses in a case of separatism—propaganda for the legalization of the idea of Novorossiya, etc.
“As far as we can tell, the site’s functionality was disrupted due to the fact that someone used data that could only have been obtained as a result of yesterday’s searches and/or interrogations, gained access to the management of the publication and disabled it.
Regardless of whether this was done by the SBU officers themselves or their public assistants, there is a violation of the law by a government agency. Either he himself committed illegal interference in the operation of the site, or he transferred confidential information to third parties in order to assist them in committing a crime.
To be honest, I assume that yesterday’s reprisals against the timers were primarily aimed at obtaining this data - and the opportunity to rob them, taking away their personal property, of course.
In principle, the functionality of the site can be restored fairly quickly. However, we will not rush into this for a number of reasons. First of all, because the resumption of the site may encourage the repressive apparatus to launch new attacks, for which one should prepare.
I want to assure you: we will do everything in the shortest possible time so that you can again find out the truth about what is happening with our help,” said Timer editor-in-chief Yuri Tkachev.
Earlier in Odessa, the editor-in-chief of the Naspravd website was arrested for 2 months after a search.i» Artem Buzila. His lawyer stated that during his arrest, torture was used against Buzila in order to obtain the testimony necessary for the security forces.
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