Pro-Junta NZ journalist beaten up

NZ journalist reportedly beaten in Ukraine

KIWI IN KIEV: Jared Morgan.

29 March, 2015

A New Zealand journalist has reportedly been beaten in Ukraine.

Jared Morgan is in hospital with concussion after being beaten near where he lives in Kiev, according to local media reports.

Morgan said he was attacked by three men who might have been refugees from eastern Ukraine and "disliked his pro-Ukrainian views", journalist Andre Alexin said on Facebook on Saturday.

Alexin said Morgan would have to spend a couple of weeks in hospital and encouraged people to visit him in the neurosurgery ward.

News website Telekritika said Morgan has lived in Kiev since 2011.

He is a former Southland Times reporter and won the Qantas Media Award for best junior feature writer in 2007.

Last January, Fairfax did a story about him - 

Kiwi in 'apocalyptic' Kiev protests

A report from on the ground. Thanks to Robin Dolstra in Sevastopol

"In Kiev activists beat up a journalist from New Zealand - Jared Morgan, who lives in Kiev in 2011 and works as a freelance. 

On the attack, said a friend of the victim Andrew Aleksin. 

He himself wrote:" We heard that said in English on the phone, came to ask that I forgot in Ukraine. Replied that he loves this country, and so proud of Maidan. D., And heard: "Oh, no ... with the Bandera!" Then remember bad. Woke up at night, "- says Aleksin. 

According to him, the attack took place at eight o'clock next to the house where he lives Morgan. 

Three young men did not like pro-Ukrainian views journalist. Diagnosis: concussion, bruises, - told us the deputy head of the press service of the police Kiev Irina Levchenko. From a foreigner refused hospitalization. " 

Kiev was occupied, but disagree with the cannibalistic Ukrainian authorities and many in this glorious Russian city. ".