{"id":12407,"date":"2015-09-18T07:48:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12407"},"modified":"2015-09-18T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:48:21","slug":"kiev-persecuting-media-reporting-truth-blacklisted-spanish-journo-to-rt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12407","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kiev persecuting media reporting truth\u2019 \u2013 blacklisted Spanish journo to RT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kiev persecuting media reporting truth\u2019 \u2013 blacklisted Spanish journo to RT<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Ukrainian government is \u201cpersecuting people who are telling the truth,\u201d Cesar Vidal, Spanish historian and journalist, who has been blacklisted by Kiev along with other European journalists, told RT.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday introduced sanctions against hundreds of individuals and legal entities, including dozens of journalists. Among them were employees of the BBC, El Pais, Die Zeit and RT’s Ruptly. On Thursday, apparently caving to pressure from European organizations and the media, he shortened the list striking off the names of journalists for British, German and Spanish media outlets.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Kiev revokes sanctions on British, German & Spanish journalists after western outcry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cesar Vidal, historian, writer and contributor for Spain\u2019s de La Razon, told RT that he was not surprised that Kiev did not remove him from the blacklist on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He believes that he was included in the sanctions list in the first place because he wrote\u00a0\u201cabout the falsehood of the thesis of Ukrainian nationalism\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and about some media coverage of\u00a0\u201cthe reality in Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cUkrainian nationalism is a real enemy of freedom,\u201d he said. The Ukrainian government is \u201cpersecuting people who are telling the truth. They are denying terrible tragedies like the 2 million Ukrainians who have fled to Russia, fleeing from Poroshenko and his government. This is the real reason.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNobody can believe that there is total freedom in Ukraine now in many aspects,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he believes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile on Thursday, the US State Department encouraged Kiev to keep in mind the importance of freedom of press.<\/p>\n