A judge who gained notoriety under President Viktor Yanukovych for his role in political persecution has placed ex-MP, investigative journalist and Maidan activist Tetyana Chornovol under 24-hour house arrest. As if the symbolism behind that were not bad enough, the move coincided with the refusal of one of his colleagues to extend the house arrest of Volodymyr Kosenko, a former Omega special forces officer, accused of killing one Maidan activist and seriously wounding another. In both cases, the prosecutor had supported the application for house arrest, or its extension, but there the similarity ends.
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Ex-lawmaker Tetiana Chornovol speaks to the press before the entering the State Investigation Bureau for the interrogation meeting in Kyiv, on April 14, 2020.
