CRWE Newswire Mideast Correspondent
The search continues for the Ukrainian journalist who wrote about corruption in law enforcement in the region. Vasyl Klymentyev has been missing since August 11 when he was last seen leaving his home and getting into a BMW with an unknown man.
The Ukraine’s interior minister, Anatoly Mogiliov, said Thursday that investigators would make every effort to find Klymentyev, editor of the weekly newspaper New Style in the Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv.
Mogiliov’s deputy, Petro Matviyenko, said Klymentyev had been threatened after refusing to take money to kill a story about a regional prosecutor accused of accepting bribes to close criminal cases.
International rights groups have expressed concern about a deterioration in media freedom in the Ukraine, pointing to journalists’ complaints about state-sponsored censorship, official pressure, and physical attacks.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists issued a statement Wednesday, saying it was concerned about Klymentyev’s well-being and urging Kharkiv authorities to carry out a thorough investigation.
Mogiliov said Thursday that he was taking the case under his personal control.
In 2000, opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, who wrote about corruption among Ukraine’s political elite, went missing for months before his decapitated body was found outside Kiev.
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