'Published on January 16, the Freedom of Speech Barometer report stated there were 243 such cases in 2019, eight more than the previous year,' RFE/RL wrote on Thursday. The yearly report was carried out by the local media watchdog Institute of Mass Information (IMI). If further mentions a murder of Vadym Komarov, a journalist killed on June 20 following an attack in May in Cherkassy, a city in central Ukraine 192 kilometers south of Kyiv.

 The listed reasons mention 'increased pressure from media owners and politicians, both of whom contribute to discrediting journalism, plus there is not much solidarity in journalistic circles,' explained Kateryna Dyachuk, the head of IMI’s freedom of speech monitoring department.

Source: www.imi.org.ua

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