Ukraine is putting persecuted journalist’s life in danger

Thursday, March 15, 2018 - 0:58 (EEST) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

“If I am killed or kidnapped or extradited to Azerbaijan in the near future, all responsibility lies with the Ukrainian authorities”. Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Huseynli had serious grounds for making this sombre warning, and for asking bitterly how he has deserved such appalling treatment from Ukraine. He is not the only journalist whose freedom, or life, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General is endangering for reasons so unclear that it is hard to exclude the possibility of direct collusion with the Azerbaijan authorities. …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group