Odessa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov seconds before his security showed off Radio Svoboda reporter Mikhail Shtekel out of courthouse where he gave a press briefing. Screengrab from Shtekel’s video posted on Twitter.
Odessa’s police will investigate the city’s mayor Gennady Trukhanov for “impeding the lawful professional activity of journalists”, a punishable offence by Ukraine’s criminal code, following an incident in which his security detail physically assaulted a local reporter.
On December 27, Radio Svoboda journalist Mikhail Shtekel posed a question to Trukhanov at a press briefing, to which the mayor responded by pushing him away while his security proceeded to expel the journalist …read more
Source: Global Voices
