Ukraine: Independent Journalist Threatened

(Kyiv) – A Ukrainian journalist who wrote about the alleged influence of far-right groups on a fact-checking organization is receiving death threats, and her personal information has been published online, Human Rights Watch said today.

The journalist, Katerina Sergatskova, co-founder of the online media outlet Zaborona, was targeted in Facebook posts in which people posted information, including her home address, a photo of her home, and photographs of her five-year-old son. Sergatskova told Human Rights Watch that she has contacted a lawyer to file a police report about the posts....