CPJ, OSCE Blast Ukraine on Foreign Journalist Entry Ban

Two international rights organizations have criticized Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for signing a decree that banned 41 foreign journalists and bloggers from entry into Ukraine for one year. The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe issued a statement Thursday calling the ban “a severe threat to the rights of journalists to freely collect information.” OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic said governments have a “legitimate right to...

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