An activist holds a candle at a rally in memory of murdered journalist Georgiy Gongadze on September 16, 2015 in Kyiv. Photo by Christopher Miller on Twitter.
On the evening of September 16, 2000, Georgiy Gongadze, a prominent Ukrainian independent journalist and founder of the website Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth) disappeared after he left his house in Kyiv and was never seen again. On November 2 that year, his headless body was found in the Tarashansky forest not far from Ukraine’s capital.
Gongadze’s widow, Myroslava, also a journalist, recalled the day’s events in a Facebook post.
15 років тому сьогодні була субота. Я …read more
Source: Global Voices
