Halya Coynash: Swedish TV SVT misleads viewers through Moreira’s ‘Masks of the Revolution’ film about Ukraine
Protesters clash with police outside the Cabinet of Ministers on Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv on Nov. 24, 2013, during the EuroMaidan Revolution.
Can lies that kill and distortion of events that have led to mass human rights violations be protected by the right to freedom of speech? Swedish TV SVT seems to think that they can since it has, despite strong protest, decided to broadcast Paul Moreira's 'Masks of the Revolution'. Only a brief 'discussion' after the film is programmed which can in no way hope to address the very dangerous misrepresentation in this film about recent events in Ukraine. The film has been condemned by French journalists working in Ukraine, as well as many in France.
