Two international rights organizations have criticized Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for signing a decree that banned 41 foreign journalists and bloggers from entry into Ukraine for one year.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe issued a statement Thursday calling the ban “a severe threat to the rights of journalists to freely collect information.”
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic said governments have a “legitimate right to fight terrorism and to protect their national security and their citizens,” but that “introducing over-broad restrictions that curb free movement of journalists is not the way to ensure security.”
She called …read more
Source: Voice of America
