European officials have urged Kiev to delete yet another list of foreign journalists “accused” of covering the situation on the ground in eastern Ukraine
by a notorious website which claims to be hunting “enemies of the state” and “terrorist collaborators.”
The personal information leaked by the Ukrainian site includes the names of 293 journalists,
their addresses and telephone numbers with the majority of them from Austria, Germany, Georgia, Brazil and Iraq
and working for respectable news outlets such as BBC, Sky News, Al Arabiya, Reuters, AFP, The Daily Telegraph,
The Times, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Hürriyet and others.
“First I was kind of speechless, I thought it was a joke, maybe,” recalls Miguel Santiago.
“But then I started thinking: how did we even come to this in the 21st century, where the freedom of press should be respected no matter how ‘unliked’ a news outlet is.
Just because I happen to work for an English-speaking international outlet that happens to be Russian-sponsored, and I am a US citizen, I get put on a kill list?
By a country that wants to join the European Union?
And nothing is done about that, not by a US embassy, not by international human rights groups?”
rt.com
GOODBYE MEMBERSHIP in the EU, UKRAINE. LOL