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Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze ((ウクライナ語:Георгій Русланович Ґонґадзе, ''Heorhiy Ruslanovych Gongadze''); (グルジア語:გიორგი ღონღაძე); 21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000)〔As established by the investigation and proved by the court. See Gongadze Case (2000–2008): A Legal Review by Dr iur Vyacheslav "Slavik" Bihun, LL.M. – http://www.bihun.info/jushits/jurhit/article/242/〕 was a Georgian-born Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000. The circumstances of his death became a national scandal and a focus for protests against the government of the then President, Leonid Kuchma. During the Cassette Scandal, audiotapes were released on which Kuchma, Volodymyr Lytvyn and other top-level administration officials are allegedly heard discussing the need to silence Gongadze for his online news reports about high-level corruption. Former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko died of two gunshots to the head on 4 March 2005, just hours before he was to begin providing testimony as a witness in the case. Kravchenko was the superior of the four policemen who were charged with Gongadze's murder soon after Kravchenko's death.〔(Key suspect in Gongadze murder arrested; Pukach allegedly strangled journalist, but who gave the order? (UPDATED) ), Kyiv Post, (22 July 2009)〕 The official ruling of suicide was doubted by media reports.〔 Three former officials of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's foreign surveillance department and criminal intelligence unit〔 (Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych) accused of his murder were arrested in March 2005 and a fourth one (Oleksiy Pukach, the former chief of the unit〔) in July 2009.〔 A court in Ukraine sentenced Protasov to a sentence of 13 years and Kostenko and Popovych to 12-year terms March 2008 (the trial had begun January 2006〔) for the murder. Gongadze's family believe the trial had failed to bring the masterminds behind the killing to justice.〔 No one has yet been charged with giving the order for Gongadze's murder.〔(Key Ukraine murder trial begins ), BBC News (9 January 2006)〕 Gongadze's widow Myroslava Gongadze and their two children received political asylum in the United States and have lived there since 2001. Gongadze was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine by President Viktor Yushchenko on 23 August 2005.〔 (Presidential decree awarding title Hero of Ukraine ), Official Verkhovna Rada website〕 ==Career== Born in Tbilisi, at the time the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Gongadze was the son of a Georgian politician father and a Ukrainian nurse mother. He was educated at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in western Ukraine. His mother Lesya was born there and lived in Lviv until her death in 2013. He became a successful journalist, first in Georgia (where he reported on the conflict in Abkhazia) and then in Ukraine. He worked for the Kiev-based radio station Kontynent, on which he had his own show called ''First round with Heorhiy Gongadze''. His strongly independent line soon attracted hostility from the increasingly authoritarian government of Leonid Kuchma; during the October 1999 presidential election, his commentaries prompted a call from Kuchma's headquarters to say "that he had been blacklisted to be dealt with after the election." Visiting New York in January 2000 with other Ukrainian journalists, he warned of "the strangulation of the freedom of speech and information in our state." In April 2000, Gongadze co-founded a news website, ''Ukrayinska Pravda'' (''Ukrainian Truth''), as a means of sidestepping the government's increasing influence over the mainstream media. He observed that following the muzzling of a prominent pro-opposition newspaper after the election, "today there is practically no objective information available about Ukraine". The website specialized in political news and commentary, focusing particularly on President Kuchma, the country's wealthy "oligarchs" and the official media. In June 2000, Gongadze wrote an open letter to Ukraine's chief prosecutor about harassment from the SBU, the Ukrainian secret police, directed towards himself and his ''Ukrayinska Pravda'' colleagues and apparently related to an investigation into a murder case in the southern port of Odessa. He complained that had been forced into hiding because of harassment from the secret police, that he said he and his family were being followed, that his staff were being harassed, and that the SBU were spreading a rumor that he was wanted on a murder charge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Georgiy Gongadze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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