Ukraine: Journalists probe colleague's death. Journalists from Ukraine left
for Belarus Monday to investigate the death of a prominent news agency
director, a top media rights group said.
The journalists want an official probe into the death of Mykhailo
Kolomiyets, former director of the Ukrainian News Agency, said Lala
Kemularya of the Institute for Mass Information, which represents the
international media rights group Reporters Sans Frontieres in Ukraine.
Kolomiyets' body was found hanging from a tree outside the Belarus capital
Minsk in October. Police called his death a suicide, but relatives and
colleagues called for a criminal probe, fearing his death could be related
to his agency's independent reporting.
AP report via Yahoo!
Committee to Protect Journalists report on Ukraine.
http://www.indexonline.org/indexindex/20030127_ukraine.shtml
Slain by the evil dark lord of the Ukraine or distruaght over the departure
of the minx from Minsk?
