Website Myrotvorets resumes operation

Ukrainian website Myrotvorets, which publishes the personal data of people, suspected of separatism by the website’s authors, decided to resume its operation.

MP Anton Herashchenko posted this on his Facebook page.

“After the tremendous support of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian patriots, the volunteers of website Myrotvorets decided to resume their work, no matter what!” the MP wrote.

Website Myrotvorets became at the center of the scandal on May 10 when it published the lists of journalists who had been accredited in the “DPR.” The lists contained the personal data of journalists working for BBC, Reuters, AFP, The Independent, Ceska televize, CNN, Bloomberg, Aljazeera, AP, Liberation, ITAR-TASS, RT and other media outlets.

After a barrage of criticism from journalists and human rights defenders, as well as after launch of criminal case against the website’s volunteers, the leaders of Myrotvorets said they closed the project.