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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on November 14, 2018, 11:06:10 am
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Why Ukraine needs an investigation into the murder of activist Kateryna Handzyuk
www.opendemocracy.net (http://www.opendemocracy.net)
Ukrainian civil society organisations are calling for an effective investigation into the death of Kherson-based anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handzyuk, who was the target of a contract killing in July 2018. She was doused with sulphuric acid and, despite all efforts to save her, died on 4 November.
The Ukrainian parliament has now set up an interim investigative commission to monitor the work of the police in the case, but its creation has turned into a political scandal.
Contract hooliganism
“She was murdered,†this is what activists and people who knew Kateryna Handzyuk stated publicly after the Kherson campaigner died in Kyiv City Hospital №2 on 4 November. The official reason for Handzyuk’s death was multi-organ failure and chemical burns over 40% of her body, the result of an acid attack on 31 July. She was moved from Kherson, in southern Ukraine, to Kyiv for treatment and underwent 11 operations, but doctors didn’t manage to save her life.
Read more at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/tetiana-bezruk/the-murder-of-activist-kateryna-handzyuk (https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/tetiana-bezruk/the-murder-of-activist-kateryna-handzyuk)
A story to watch, I heard some more about this story earlier but nothing in the printed media yet.