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The list includes the names of four Moldovan journalists and bloggers: Pavel Gavrilov, moderator of www.57.md; Andrei Safonov, political analyst and blogger from the Transnistrian region; Vladimir Bukarski, coordinator of the “Eurasia Inform” project (on his Facebook profile he presents himself as an analyst for the Party of Socialists of Moldova); and Pavel Grigorciuc, editor-in-chief of www.grenada.md. Pavel Grigorciuc is currently under arrest in Chisinau for alleged “mass disturbances” during the protests of September 6.
The decision to impose these sanctions was made by Ukrainian authorities after the leadership of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic announced about the organization of elections on the separatist territory on October 18. The sanctions have been imposed for one year.
In a declaration published on Thursday, September 17, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović appealed to the Ukrainian president to exclude journalists from that list: “I fully respect governments’ legitimate right to fight terrorism and to protect their national security and their citizens, but introducing over-broad restrictions that curb free movement of journalists is not the way to ensure security.”
According to the information posted on the website of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, on Friday, September 18, sanctions against Western journalists were annulled. They include three BBC journalists, two reporters of the Spanish El Pais, and one German journalists of Die Zeit.
“Freedom of expression is an absolute value for me,” Poroshenko said, as quoted by Sviatoslav Tsegolko, spokesman of the Ukrainian presidential administration.
Source of photo: timpul.md
