Clutching pictures of Tetyana Chornovil’s badly bruised face, hundreds marched on the Interior Ministry in the capital, Kiev.
The attack on the 34-year-old restored passion to protests that have been losing steam more than a month after the government spurned a pact on closer ties with the European Union, turning instead to former Soviet master Moscow. Pro-EU demonstrators have been occupying central Kiev, but their numbers have been falling since Russia offered Ukraine a $15 billion bailout this month.
The United States said the journalist’s beating was ‘particularly disturbing’ and that Washington was concerned and watching the situation. ‘The United States expresses its grave concern over an emerging pattern of targeted violence and intimidation towards activists and journalists’ who participated in or reported on the protests, said a statement issued by State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki on Thursday evening.
The attack on the 34-year-old restored passion to protests that have been losing steam more than a month after the government spurned a pact on closer ties with the European Union, turning instead to former Soviet master Moscow. Pro-EU demonstrators have been occupying central Kiev, but their numbers have been falling since Russia offered Ukraine a $15 billion bailout this month.
The United States said the journalist’s beating was ‘particularly disturbing’ and that Washington was concerned and watching the situation. ‘The United States expresses its grave concern over an emerging pattern of targeted violence and intimidation towards activists and journalists’ who participated in or reported on the protests, said a statement issued by State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki on Thursday evening.