Ukraine - Kiev court upholds decision to ignore masterminds in Gongadze murder case

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by a Kiev appeal court decision yesterday that will have the effect of preventing any further attempt to identify the senior government officials who were almost certainly behind online journalist Georgiy Gongadze's murder in September 2000. Yesterday's appeal court ruling upheld a decision by the prosecutor's office to change the legal definition of the killing from “commissioned murder” to the less serious “murder on verbal orders,” which carries a (...)

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