Iryna Salii
Ukraine
Correspondent
Iryna Salii is a Ukrainian journalist specializing in coverage of criminal justice in the field of top corruption and war crimes. After several years as an investigative journalist for the NGO “Nashi Groshi” (Our Money) and as a judicial reporter for the News Agency Censor.net, she founded her own media project, “Sudovyy Reporter” (Court Reporter) in December 2017. Editor and court reporter, she monitors court decisions, and has developed a network of correspondents across Ukraine. She became a pillar of a Hirondelle Foundation programme supporting Ukrainian journalists all over the country. In Ukraine and beyond, “Sudovyy Reporter” is now a unique news reference on war crimes and war related trials.
One year after being exchanged, a Russian pilot sentenced in Chernihiv
The images of the pilot shot down in the early days of Russia's all-out attack on Ukraine made the headlines. But despite his relative celebrity and his confession to bombing Chernihiv, the man was exchanged before he could be tried. It was only on October 26, that a local Ukrainian court convicted him in absentia […]
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