Odessa: Timer journalists searched & detained by Ukraine junta

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Homes of Odessa journalists searched

The home of Yuri Tkachev, chief editor of the Odessa online publication Timer, is being searched. Journalist Alexander Sibirtsev reported this on his Facebook page.

Yuri Tkachev, chief editor of Timer
Attempts by journalists from the site Dumskaya.net failed. The Timer website is currently closed. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has not commented on what is happening. According to reports, an investigation has been conducted in the editor’s apartment since 7 am. Tkachev is at home. The witnesses were his neighbors.

Tkachev wrote a week ago about the impending search.

Searches are being carried out not only in the apartment of “Timer” chief editor Yuri Tkachev, but also in those of his subordinates, Anastastii Chornovil and Anton Dotsenko.

A former employee of the publication, Stanislav Kozlikin, was summoned for questioning.

Investigators at Tkachev’s apartment.
Photos:Timer
According to the editors, the journalists (except Yuri) are now detained in the SBU building on Jewish Street [Еврейской улице].

It’s unknown what Tkachev, Chornovil and Dotsenko are accused of. Dotsenko is being interrogated as a witness.

More information on the site Dumskaya.net

Source

Updates from Timer on VK.com

The chief editor of Timer was taken away for questioning.

According to his wife, Yuri Tkachev will most likely be detained. The editor withdrew without handcuffs. 

The detainees’ laptops, ID, phone, SIM-cards, notebooks and so on were seized.

The interrogation of four of our employees by the SBU continues. According to the search warrant, they are held in the framework of a pre-trial investigation of criminal offenses under Article 110 of the Criminal Code (infringement on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, committed on prior arrangement by a group of persons). It provides a restriction of freedom for a term of three to five years, or imprisonment for the same period.

Also, according to law enforcement, Timer is “perhaps coordinated by the Russian Federation.”

The system administrator of Timer, Alexander Boyarintsev, is also being held by the SBU after a search.

Translated by Greg Butterfield

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