The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned a Ukrainian court’s decision to grant the country’s prosecutor general’s office permission to access the phone records of Natalie Sedletska, a reporter, editor, and television presenter for Schemes, an investigative journalism project of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Ukrainian Service.
On August 27, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv, at the request of the prosecutor general’s office, ordered Sedletska’s telephone service provider to hand over information, including text messages and location data, covering the 17-month period between July 2016 and November 2017, according to RFE/RL.
