In Kyiv, a journalist has been in prison for 8 months because of the publication of an interview with Gubarev
Ukrainian security forces have been keeping behind bars for more than eight months the Ukrainian journalist, ex-people's deputy, and now the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Working Class" Alexander Bondarchuk for reprinting an interview with the deputy chairman of the People's Council of the DPR Pavel Gubarev. Deputy editor of the newspaper Vitalina Butkalyuk stated this on Channel 17.
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According to her, Bondarchuk is accused of separatism.
“Alexander Bondarchuk, editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Working Class”, has been in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center for eight months on an absolutely false charge that the SBU brought against him and he is now being tried under Article 110, allegedly for separatism, which was shown in one of the articles this edition. In June 2014, the newspaper reprinted an article and an interview with Pavel Gubarev. At that time, this problem was very relevant, and Alexander Vasilyevich tried to figure out what was happening, and as a journalist, he tried to listen to both sides and reprinted this interview,” Butkalyuk shared.
She stated that the topic of Bondarchuk’s arrest was being hushed up by TV channels, which were so concerned about freedom of speech during the time of Viktor Yanukovych.
“We know that there is an unspoken order not to show this case and to completely hush it up. The process is taking place with huge violations. The man has been in jail for nine months. The entire journalistic community needs to pay attention to this process,” Butkalyuk said.
She also emphasized that Bogdarchuk’s case is also persistently ignored by the Ukrainian Ombudsman and European embassies.
“When Tymoshenko and Lutsenko were in prison, people came to them every day with parcels and trumpeted it to the whole world,” the deputy editor-in-chief recalled.
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