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polis jalan menemui wartawan pembangkang teruk dipukul, Tetyana Chornovil,
dalam parit di luar Kiev. Pihak berkuasa Ukraine, pemimpin-pemimpin pembangkang
dan pegawai asing menuntut siasatan yang segera dan menyeluruh ke dalam jenayah
itu.
Pada
malam Rabu, pegawai-pegawai penguatkuasa undang-undang mendapati Chevrolet Aveo
‘diletakkan’ dalam parit di lebuh raya yang menghubungkan ibu negara Ukraine
dan lapangan terbang antarabangsa Borispol. Di dalam kereta, mereka mendapati
wartawan Tetyana Chornovi, yang telah teruk dipukul. Mereka segera membawanya
ke hospital untuk rawatan.
Video kemudian
menunjukkan wanita tidak sedarkan diri dengan lebam lebih separuh mukanya,
bibir bengkak dan luka di seluruh pipi. Medik yang mengunakan beberapa jahitan
untuk muka wartawan dan berkata beliau telah mengalami gegaran dan pelbagai
tulang patah. Wartawan berusia 34 tahun mungkin memerlukan sekurang-kurangnya 3
pembedahaan.
Petang,
Chornovil masih dikatakan berada dalam keadaan yang serius, agensi berita ‘Ukraine
News’ dilaporkan. Masih dia berjaya membuat beberapa komen mengenai kejadian
itu dan siasatan jenayah segera dilancarkan. Wartawan itu berkata beliau sedang
memandu ke kampung Gora apabila dia perasan keretanya telah dipatuhi, wartawan
Ukraine Mustafa Nayyem dinyatakan pada akaun Facebooknya.
Chornovil
didakwa cuba lari tetapi ‘berwarna gelap’ kereta SUV memintas kenderaan beliau
dan memaksanya untuk berhenti. Kemudian 2 orang lelaki menyerang kenderaan
beliau, memecahkan tingkap sampingan. Apabila Chornovil cuba untuk melarikan
diri, orang-orang memukulnya sehingga dan memandu keretanya ke dalam parit.
Dilaporkan, penyerang tidak berkata apa dalam alat pemukul itu.
Wartawan
ini tidak dapat menggambarkan kemunculan penyerang kepada polis, tetapi
keretanya telah dilengkapi dengan kamera papan pemuka. 3 suspek dituduh
memukul wartawan telah ditahan oleh pihak polis, menurut Interfax- Ukraine.
Polis
tidak menolak bahawa pukulan itu kejam boleh disebabkan oleh penglibatan
Chornovil dalam kejadian jalan raya, sumber penguatkuasaan undang-undang kepada
agensi tempatan UNN, sambil menambah bahawa kes-kes pemandu marah menggunakan
kekerasan yang berlebihan terhadap orang lain adalah bukan luar biasa.
Polis
sedang memeriksa semua kamera pengawasan berdekatan dan menyoal siasat saksi,
tambah sumber itu. Rakaman wartawan yang dipukul dengan teruk menghantar
gelom-bang kejutan dan kemarahan di seluruh Ukraine.
“Tidak
syak lagi bahawa [yang] pencerobohan terhadap Tetyana Chornovil disambungkan
semata-mata dengan aktiviti kewartawanan beliau,” pemimpin pembangkang, Arseny
Yatsenyuk, diisytiharkan. “Ini sama sekali bukan samseng biasa; dipukul teruk
ini adalah dihubungkan dengan aktiviti-aktiviti profesional [beliau].”
Presiden
Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich telah mengarahkan Menteri Dalam Negeri Vitaly
Zakharchenko dan Ketua Pendakwa Viktor Pshonka secara peribadi menyelia
siasatan kes itu. “Presiden Ukraine mengutuk keganasan ini dan menekankan
bahawa agensi-agensi penguatkuasaan undang-undang perlu menyelesaikan jenayah
ini dan membawa penje-nayah ke muka pengadilan,” perkhidmatan media dari ketua
negara berkata pada hari Rabu.
Dunya
Miyatovic, wakil kebebasan media daripada Pertubuhan Keselamatan dan Kerja-sama
di Eropah, juga menyuarakan kebimbangannya “Saya mengalu-alukan kutukan
Yanukovich ini keganasan dan menyeru pihak berkuasa untuk menjalankan siasatan
yang cepat dan menyeluruh,” katanya.
Outrage as Ukrainian opposition journalist found
roughly beaten near Kiev . . .
A road
police patrol found the badly beaten opposition journalist, Tetyana Chornovil,
in a ditch outside Kiev. Ukrainian authorities, leaders of the opposition and
foreign officials are demanding an immediate and thorough investigation into
the crime.
On
Wednesday night, law enforcement officers found a Chevrolet Aveo ‘parked’ in a
ditch on the highway connecting the Ukrainian capital and Borispol
international airport. Inside the car, they found journalist Tetyana Chornovi,
who had been badly beaten up. They immediately took her to a hospital for
treatment.
A video
later showed an unconscious woman with bruising over half her face, swollen
lips and cuts across her cheeks. Medics applied several stitches to the
journalist’s face and said she had suffered concussion and multiple broken
bones. The 34-year-old journalist might require at least three operations.
By
evening, Chornovil was still said to be in a serious condition, the ‘Ukrainian
News’ news agency reported. Still she managed to make several comments about
the incident, and a criminal investigation was immediately launched. The
journalist said she was driving to the village of Gora when she noticed her car
was being followed, Ukrainian journalist Mustafa Nayyem stated on his Facebook
account.
Chornovil
allegedly attempted to get away but a ‘dark colored’ SUV car intercepted her
vehicle and forced her to stop. Then two men attacked her vehicle, breaking the
side windows. When Chornovil attempted to run away, the men beat her up and
drove her car into a ditch. Reportedly, the attackers did not say a word during
the battering.
The
journalist was unable to describe the appearance of the attackers to the
police, but her car was equipped with a dashboard camera. Three suspects
accused of beating the journalist have been detained by the police, according
to Interfax-Ukraine.
Police
do not rule out that the brutal beating could have been caused by Chornovil’s
involvement in a road traffic incident, a law enforcement source told local
agency UNN, adding that cases of angry motorists using excessive force against
others are not uncommon.
Police
are checking all nearby surveillance cameras and are questioning witnesses, the
source added. The footage of the severely beaten journalist sent waves of shock
and outrage across Ukraine.
“There
is no doubt that [the] aggression against Tetyana Chornovil is connected solely
with her journalistic activities,” opposition leader, Arseny Yatsenyuk,
declared. “This is in no way ordinary hooliganism; this severe beating is
connected with [her] professional activities.”
Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovich has ordered Minister of Interior Vitaly
Zakharchenko and Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka to personally supervise the
investigation of the case. “The President of Ukraine strongly condemned this
violence and stressed that law enforcement agencies need to solve this crime
and bring the perpetrators to justice,” the press service of the head of state
said on Wednesday.
Dunya
Miyatovic, the media freedom representative of the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe, also voiced concerns. “I welcome Yanukovich’s
condemnation of the violence and call on the authorities to carry out a quick
and thorough investigation,” she said.
WARNING: Graphic video (AMARAN:
video Grafik):
Tetyana
Chornovil dikenali di Ukraine untuk melakukan beberapa laporan penyiasatan
mengenai pegawai-pegawai aktiviti. Menurut laporan yang belum disahkan dalam
blog Ukraine, pada hari sebelum serangan dia mengumpul bahan untuk ayat-ayat
baru. Semasa kemelut itu Maidan antara penunjuk perasaan dan polis di Dataran
Kemerdekaan di Kiev, Chornovil menjadi terlibat dalam beberapa aktiviti yang
agak kontroversi.
Pada 1
Disember, lajur penunjuk perasaan meneruskan perjalanan ke Maidan (detained)
ditahan sekumpulan provocateurs yang cuba untuk menghancurkan tingkap pejabat
Datuk Bandar dan menyerang bangunan.
Kumpulan anak-anak muda bertopeng,
berpakaian topi keledar oren hitam dan memakai, dikelilingi oleh aktivis
pembangkang, yang mengoyakkan topeng dari muka mereka untuk mengambil
gambar-gambar belia untuk pengenalan lagi.
Ternyata
bahawa kumpulan itu yang diketuai oleh Tetyana Chornovil. “Saya
bertanggung-jawab sepenuhnya untuk ini dan saya bersedia untuk pergi ke penjara,”
wartawan yang mengisytiharkan pada masa itu, seperti yang dipetik oleh edisi
Ukraine Kommersant harian.
Paluan
Chornovil bukan satu-satunya insiden yang melibatkan wartawan di Ukraine musim
sejuk ini. Walaupun polis menyuraikan penunjuk perasaan di pusat bandar Kiev
pada awal Disember, sehingga 40 wartawan telah cedera dalam pertempuran,
menurut agensi berita Liga Ukraine.
Pada 16 Disember, seorang wartawan
terkenal, Yury Kot, telah serius dipukul selepas beliau mengetuai demonstrasi
bagi menyokong presiden pemerintah.
Semasa
perhimpunan wartawan menerima beberapa mesej teks mengancam dirinya dan
saudara-mara beliau. Kemudian, seorang lelaki diserang Kot berhampiran rumahnya,
mengetuk wartawan ke bawah, patah hidung dan beberapa tulang rusuk beliau.
Penyerang itu masih belum dikenal pasti.
Tetyana
Chornovil became known in Ukraine for doing a number of investigative reports
on officials’ activities. According to unconfirmed reports in Ukrainian blogs,
on the day prior to the assault she was collecting material for new
revelations. During the Maidan standoff between protesters and police on
Independence Square in Kiev, Chornovil became involved in some rather
controversial activities.
On
December 1, a column of protesters proceeding to Maidan detained
a group of provocateurs who were attempting to smash the windows of the mayor’s
office and storm the building. The group of young masked people, dressed in
black and wearing orange safety helmets, was surrounded by opposition
activists, who tore the masks off their faces to take photos of the youths for
further identification.
It
turned out that the group was led by Tetyana Chornovil. “I bear full
responsibility for this and I’m ready to go to prison,” the journalist declared
at the time, as cited by the Ukrainian edition of Kommersant Daily.
The
beating of Chornovil is not the only incident involving journalists in Ukraine
this winter. While police were dispersing protesters in downtown Kiev in early
December, up to 40 journalists were injured in clashes, according to Ukraine’s
Liga news agency. On December 16, a prominent journalist, Yury Kot, was
seriously beaten up after he led a demonstration in support of the ruling
president.
During
the rally the journalist received several text messages threatening himself and
his relatives. Later on, a man attacked Kot near his home, knocked the
journalist down, broke his nose and several ribs. The assailant has yet to be
identified.
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