MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Gregg Leslie from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said that Kiev should not impose sanctions against journalists, even if they are reporting information that is uncomfortable or embarrassing to the government.
"It was done for political reasons more than anything, but it gets back to the fact that they shouldn’t be sanctioning journalists for reporting anyway," Leslie said.
"We find it intolerable that the government decided that they can restrict speech in that way," Leslie said.
More than 40 journalists and bloggers from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Israel, Latvia and Russia, were targeted by the new restrictions.
Journalists from several Western countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain, were later removed from the list.
