Internews Celebrates World Press Freedom Day

Television reporters during Ukraine demonstrations
UKRAINE: Reporters cover the demonstrations protesting the presidential election results, November 2004. (Photo: Oleksandr Makarenko/Internews Ukraine)

"I am addressing all the deaf citizens of Ukraine. Don't believe what they [authorities] say. They are lying."

Natalia Dmitrjuk, the sign-language interpreter during a Ukrainian TV broadcast reporting that Prime Minister Victor Yanukovich had won the presidential election. Dmitruk joined more than 200 of her UT-1 colleagues in a strike against state control over news coverage.

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