1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/Attacks on the Press 2001: Ukraine - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="7sR2Vo123m"><a href="https://cpj.org/2002/03/attacks-on-the-press-2001-ukraine/">Attacks on the Press 2001: Ukraine</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2002/03/attacks-on-the-press-2001-ukraine/embed/#?secret=7sR2Vo123m" width="600" height="338" title="“Attacks on the Press 2001: Ukraine” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="7sR2Vo123m" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Legal harassment, violence, and death continued to stalk Ukrainian journalists in 2001. Two murders underscored the continuing dangers, as did the stalled investigation into the murder of Internet journalist Georgy Gongadze. More than a year after Gongadze's headless corpse was discovered in November 2000, and after months of allegations about possible presidential involvement in his…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260