Kyiv’s Pechersky district court in a closed court session has decided to search a house and a studio of Shuster Live Show presenter, journalist Savik Shuster, a CEO of 3S.tv TV channel Pavlo Yelizarov said on his Facebook page.
“As we have just learned from reliable sources, the judge of Pechersky court in a closed hearing without the presence of our lawyers, ruled a search warrant at place of residence of Savik Shuster and at the TV channel of Savik Shuster Studio,” the statement says.
“We consider this as renewal of pressure,” Yelizarov said.
In turn Shuster in the broadcast of his live show on Nov. 11 night, said: “I was told during the commercial break that Pechersky court has ruled to resume all pursuits against us and against me. The next week we expect searches and everything that we can not even imagine will happen here.”
The Kyiv City Employment Center annulled the right to work for Shuster in Ukraine in the office of Director General of LLC Savik Shuster Studio – television production, which produced the Shuster Live show. The decision was made on the basis of allegedly false certificate of good conduct.
The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine and the Independent Media Trade Union issued a statement in which they called the authorities’ actions illegal and qualified them as a manifestation of the legal censorship.
On July 12 the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the first instance court of the illegality of cancellation by the Kyiv City Employment Center of permit for work to the author and presenter of the Shuster LIVE talk show, Savik Shuster.
