In Ternopil, journalists were ousted from the on-site meeting of a Verkhovna Rada committee

Ternopil journalists are indignant with the fact that on October 18 the journalists were ousted from the on-site meeting of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for the issues of transport and communications chaired by the Committee’s chairman Borys Kolesknikov in the premises of Ternopil National University of Economics. This was the content of the petition filed to the head of Ternopil State Oblast Administration Valentyn Khoptian, Pro Vse informs.

The journalists declared that they denounced the practice of obstructing the work of the journalists, and they demand information on whose initiative the open session was closed for the journalists, and they demand a briefing, where the person in fault would apologize to the journalists for the outrageous violation of the legislation in effect (Article 171 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (deliberate obstruction of lawful professional activities of journalists).