Friday, 28 May 2021, 20:10
English-language version of documentary about Ukrainian journalist Gongadze released
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Ukrinform
An English-language version of the documentary The Murder of Gongadze: 20 Years of Searching for the Truth is being released for World Press Freedom Day, according to NGO Public Interest Journalist Lab.
The film by Ukrainian journalists Nataliya Gumenyuk, Maxim Kamenev, and Anna Tsyhyma tells the story of the murder of Georgiy Gongadze, a political journalist and co-founder of one of the country s first and most influential online publications, Ukrainska Pravda. In 2021, The World Press Freedom Day is devoted to cherishing information as a public good. The attacks on journalists who work to keep those in power accountable, informing their society, are attacks on the public good. Yet what we saw is that unsolved crimes against journalists and the void and impunity they leave in the public sphere lead to a broken justice system where justice cannot be