(UA) IT/Tech Ukrainians in Canada
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FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND THE RIGHT TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY The constitution and civil code provided citizens with rights to freedom of internal movement, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation. The government, however, restricted these rights, particularly in the eastern part of the country near the zone of conflict. Under martial law, men ages 18 to 60 were prohibited from leaving the country.
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Nongovernmental Impact: There were reports nongovernment actors attacked journalists. On March 30, a metropolitan bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church assaulted Espreso TV reporter Valeriya Pashko during an interview with journalists in the Kyiv Pechersk Monastery, shoving her and attempting to knock the microphone from her hands. Hearings continued at year’s end against well-known businessman Oleksandr Petrovskyy and members of his security detail, who attacked and threatened Ukrainska Pravda journalists in Dnipro in February 2022.
