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Committee to Protect Journalists Condemns Leak of Data on Reporters

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) disapproves of the release by hackers of personal information of reporters working in eastern Ukraine, CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova said in a press release on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Various Ukrainian online media outlets on Tuesday leaked names, e-mails and mobile phones of some 5,000 journalists who had been accredited by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine.

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"Publishing journalists' private contact details puts them at risk. At worst this action could be read as a thinly veiled call to target them," Ognianova stated.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE) is also concerned over journalists' security in Ukraine amid recent violations of their privacy.

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