As protests continue in Ukraine, journalists are finding themselves increasingly under threat from different parts of the country we constantly receive signals about intimidation and aggression towards reporters and the situation appears not have improved in the meantime. In some cases, journalists appear to have been specifically targeted. Away from the media headlines, ordinary Ukrainians — journalists, human rights activists, trade unionists—suffer political persecution. Many endure violence, imprisonment or exile. Elsewhere, out-of-court persecution of public activists has not stopped. Violations of freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association have grown more aggressive. While the imprisonment of high profile politicians gains mass media coverage, the plight of public activists, journalists, human rights activists, NGO members, participants of tr ... Read more »