KIEV: Ukraine faced global media condemnation Thursday for banning dozens of foreign reporters as it expanded sanctions against Russia for its actions in the war-torn former Soviet state.
The blacklisted reporters included three Moscow-based journalists with the BBC. The list also named a Spanish correspondent and a writer who Germany’s Die Zeit weekly later identified as a freelance contributor to one of its supplements.
“We are appalled by this ban, which represents an absurd, counter-productive breach of freedom of information,” the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.
The New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists said it also “deplores” Ukraine’s pro-Western President …read more
Source: theSun
