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SitiWanMahani - Peronda polis jalan menemui wartawan pembangkang teruk dipukul, Tetyana Chornovil, dalam parit di luar Kiev. Pihak berkuasa Ukraine, pemimpin-pemimpin pembangkang dan pegawai asing menuntut siasatan yang segera dan menyeluruh ke dalam jenayah itu.
Pada malam Rabu, pegawai-pegawai penguatkuasa undang-undang mendapati Chevrolet Aveo ‘diletakkan’ dalam parit di lebuh raya yang menghubungkan ibu negara Ukraine dan lapangan terbang antarabangsa Borispol. Di dalam kereta, mereka mendapati wartawan Tetyana Chornovi, yang telah teruk dipukul. Mereka segera membawanya ke hospital untuk rawatan.
Video kemudian menunjukkan wanita tidak sedarkan diri dengan lebam lebih separuh mukanya, bibir bengkak dan luka di seluruh pipi. Medik yang mengunakan beberapa jahitan untuk muka wartawan dan berkata beliau telah mengalami gegaran dan pelbagai tulang patah. Wartawan berusia 34 tahun mungkin memerlukan sekurang-kurangnya 3 pembedahaan.
Petang, Chornovil masih dikatakan berada dalam keadaan yang serius, agensi berita ‘Ukraine News’ dilaporkan. Masih dia berjaya membuat beberapa komen mengenai kejadian itu dan siasatan jenayah segera dilancarkan. Wartawan itu berkata beliau sedang memandu ke kampung Gora apabila dia perasan keretanya telah dipatuhi, wartawan Ukraine Mustafa Nayyem dinyatakan pada akaun Facebooknya.
Chornovil didakwa cuba lari tetapi ‘berwarna gelap’ kereta SUV memintas kenderaan beliau dan memaksanya untuk berhenti. Kemudian 2 orang lelaki menyerang kenderaan beliau, memecahkan tingkap sampingan. Apabila Chornovil cuba untuk melarikan diri, orang-orang memukulnya sehingga dan memandu keretanya ke dalam parit. Dilaporkan, penyerang tidak berkata apa dalam alat pemukul itu.
Wartawan ini tidak dapat menggambarkan kemunculan penyerang kepada polis, tetapi keretanya telah dilengkapi dengan kamera papan pemuka. 3 suspek dituduh memukul wartawan telah ditahan oleh pihak polis, menurut Interfax- Ukraine.
Polis tidak menolak bahawa pukulan itu kejam boleh disebabkan oleh penglibatan Chornovil dalam kejadian jalan raya, sumber penguatkuasaan undang-undang kepada agensi tempatan UNN, sambil menambah bahawa kes-kes pemandu marah menggunakan kekerasan yang berlebihan terhadap orang lain adalah bukan luar biasa.
Polis sedang memeriksa semua kamera pengawasan berdekatan dan menyoal siasat saksi, tambah sumber itu. Rakaman wartawan yang dipukul dengan teruk menghantar gelom-bang kejutan dan kemarahan di seluruh Ukraine.
“Tidak syak lagi bahawa [yang] pencerobohan terhadap Tetyana Chornovil disambungkan semata-mata dengan aktiviti kewartawanan beliau,” pemimpin pembangkang, Arseny Yatsenyuk, diisytiharkan. “Ini sama sekali bukan samseng biasa; dipukul teruk ini adalah dihubungkan dengan aktiviti-aktiviti profesional [beliau].”
Presiden Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich telah mengarahkan Menteri Dalam Negeri Vitaly Zakharchenko dan Ketua Pendakwa Viktor Pshonka secara peribadi menyelia siasatan kes itu. “Presiden Ukraine mengutuk keganasan ini dan menekankan bahawa agensi-agensi penguatkuasaan undang-undang perlu menyelesaikan jenayah ini dan membawa penje-nayah ke muka pengadilan,” perkhidmatan media dari ketua negara berkata pada hari Rabu.
Dunya Miyatovic, wakil kebebasan media daripada Pertubuhan Keselamatan dan Kerja-sama di Eropah, juga menyuarakan kebimbangannya “Saya mengalu-alukan kutukan Yanukovich ini keganasan dan menyeru pihak berkuasa untuk menjalankan siasatan yang cepat dan menyeluruh,” katanya.
Outrage as Ukrainian opposition journalist found
roughly beaten near Kiev . . .
A road police patrol found the badly beaten opposition journalist, Tetyana Chornovil, in a ditch outside Kiev. Ukrainian authorities, leaders of the opposition and foreign officials are demanding an immediate and thorough investigation into the crime.
On Wednesday night, law enforcement officers found a Chevrolet Aveo ‘parked’ in a ditch on the highway connecting the Ukrainian capital and Borispol international airport. Inside the car, they found journalist Tetyana Chornovi, who had been badly beaten up. They immediately took her to a hospital for treatment.
A video later showed an unconscious woman with bruising over half her face, swollen lips and cuts across her cheeks. Medics applied several stitches to the journalist’s face and said she had suffered concussion and multiple broken bones. The 34-year-old journalist might require at least three operations.
By evening, Chornovil was still said to be in a serious condition, the ‘Ukrainian News’ news agency reported. Still she managed to make several comments about the incident, and a criminal investigation was immediately launched. The journalist said she was driving to the village of Gora when she noticed her car was being followed, Ukrainian journalist Mustafa Nayyem stated on his Facebook account.
Chornovil allegedly attempted to get away but a ‘dark colored’ SUV car intercepted her vehicle and forced her to stop. Then two men attacked her vehicle, breaking the side windows. When Chornovil attempted to run away, the men beat her up and drove her car into a ditch. Reportedly, the attackers did not say a word during the battering.
The journalist was unable to describe the appearance of the attackers to the police, but her car was equipped with a dashboard camera. Three suspects accused of beating the journalist have been detained by the police, according to Interfax-Ukraine.
Police do not rule out that the brutal beating could have been caused by Chornovil’s involvement in a road traffic incident, a law enforcement source told local agency UNN, adding that cases of angry motorists using excessive force against others are not uncommon.
Police are checking all nearby surveillance cameras and are questioning witnesses, the source added. The footage of the severely beaten journalist sent waves of shock and outrage across Ukraine.
“There is no doubt that [the] aggression against Tetyana Chornovil is connected solely with her journalistic activities,” opposition leader, Arseny Yatsenyuk, declared. “This is in no way ordinary hooliganism; this severe beating is connected with [her] professional activities.”
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has ordered Minister of Interior Vitaly Zakharchenko and Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka to personally supervise the investigation of the case. “The President of Ukraine strongly condemned this violence and stressed that law enforcement agencies need to solve this crime and bring the perpetrators to justice,” the press service of the head of state said on Wednesday.
Dunya Miyatovic, the media freedom representative of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, also voiced concerns. “I welcome Yanukovich’s condemnation of the violence and call on the authorities to carry out a quick and thorough investigation,” she said.
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Tetyana Chornovil dikenali di Ukraine untuk melakukan beberapa laporan penyiasatan mengenai pegawai-pegawai aktiviti. Menurut laporan yang belum disahkan dalam blog Ukraine, pada hari sebelum serangan dia mengumpul bahan untuk ayat-ayat baru. Semasa kemelut itu Maidan antara penunjuk perasaan dan polis di Dataran Kemerdekaan di Kiev, Chornovil menjadi terlibat dalam beberapa aktiviti yang agak kontroversi.
Pada 1 Disember, lajur penunjuk perasaan meneruskan perjalanan ke Maidan (detained) ditahan sekumpulan provocateurs yang cuba untuk menghancurkan tingkap pejabat Datuk Bandar dan menyerang bangunan.
Kumpulan anak-anak muda bertopeng, berpakaian topi keledar oren hitam dan memakai, dikelilingi oleh aktivis pembangkang, yang mengoyakkan topeng dari muka mereka untuk mengambil gambar-gambar belia untuk pengenalan lagi.
Ternyata bahawa kumpulan itu yang diketuai oleh Tetyana Chornovil. “Saya bertanggung-jawab sepenuhnya untuk ini dan saya bersedia untuk pergi ke penjara,” wartawan yang mengisytiharkan pada masa itu, seperti yang dipetik oleh edisi Ukraine Kommersant harian.
Paluan Chornovil bukan satu-satunya insiden yang melibatkan wartawan di Ukraine musim sejuk ini. Walaupun polis menyuraikan penunjuk perasaan di pusat bandar Kiev pada awal Disember, sehingga 40 wartawan telah cedera dalam pertempuran, menurut agensi berita Liga Ukraine.
Pada 16 Disember, seorang wartawan terkenal, Yury Kot, telah serius dipukul selepas beliau mengetuai demonstrasi bagi menyokong presiden pemerintah.
Semasa perhimpunan wartawan menerima beberapa mesej teks mengancam dirinya dan saudara-mara beliau. Kemudian, seorang lelaki diserang Kot berhampiran rumahnya, mengetuk wartawan ke bawah, patah hidung dan beberapa tulang rusuk beliau. Penyerang itu masih belum dikenal pasti.
Tetyana Chornovil became known in Ukraine for doing a number of investigative reports on officials’ activities. According to unconfirmed reports in Ukrainian blogs, on the day prior to the assault she was collecting material for new revelations. During the Maidan standoff between protesters and police on Independence Square in Kiev, Chornovil became involved in some rather controversial activities.
On December 1, a column of protesters proceeding to Maidan detained a group of provocateurs who were attempting to smash the windows of the mayor’s office and storm the building. The group of young masked people, dressed in black and wearing orange safety helmets, was surrounded by opposition activists, who tore the masks off their faces to take photos of the youths for further identification.
It turned out that the group was led by Tetyana Chornovil. “I bear full responsibility for this and I’m ready to go to prison,” the journalist declared at the time, as cited by the Ukrainian edition of Kommersant Daily.
The beating of Chornovil is not the only incident involving journalists in Ukraine this winter. While police were dispersing protesters in downtown Kiev in early December, up to 40 journalists were injured in clashes, according to Ukraine’s Liga news agency. On December 16, a prominent journalist, Yury Kot, was seriously beaten up after he led a demonstration in support of the ruling president.
During the rally the journalist received several text messages threatening himself and his relatives. Later on, a man attacked Kot near his home, knocked the journalist down, broke his nose and several ribs. The assailant has yet to be identified.
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