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🤔 Up to 8 years in prison for copying data from registries: The Rada, instead of EU anti-corruption laws, is preparing punishment for investigative journalists, - Shabunin
The Verkhovna Rada plans to consider draft law No. 10242, which provides for up to 8 years of imprisonment for using data from state registries during martial law. This would effectively allow jailing investigative journalists who expose unlawful enrichment of officials. This is written on Facebook by the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, Vitaliy Shabunin.
"Instead of anti-corruption laws for which the EU gives Ukraine money, Zelensky’s deputies tomorrow want to vote for prison for journalists who write about their wealth," he notes.
"It is from the registries that journalists learn about officials’ relatives’ elite apartments, deputies’ trips to the Russian Federation, and assets that cannot be earned on a parliamentary salary. A journalist can be made a ‘co-conspirator,’ and his source—a criminal. 8 years is already a grave crime, meaning wiretapping and surveillance of both (the journalist and the source)," Shabunin adds.
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