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Vyacheslav Veremiy
Organization: Vesti
Year: 2014
Country: Ukraine
Bio:
Newspaper reporter Vyacheslav Veremiy nearly lost an eye from a stun grenade while covering protests in Kiev between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in 2014. But after a month in the hospital, he returned to cover deadly clashes between police and demonstrators in Kiev's Independence Square. Returning home in a taxi with a colleague one night, Veremiy filmed a group of armed masked men he noticed at an intersection. The men stormed the taxi, dragged Veremiy and his colleague from the car and beat them with baseball bats. Veremiy was shot in the chest and died. He was 32. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, four other journalists were killed in Ukraine in 2014 during clashes between government forces and pro-Russian separatists. |