{"id":1458180,"date":"2026-10-27T18:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-rada-has-withdrawn-from-consideration-a-draft-law-that-threatens-the-work-of-journalists\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:53:52","slug":"the-rada-has-withdrawn-from-consideration-a-draft-law-that-threatens-the-work-of-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-rada-has-withdrawn-from-consideration-a-draft-law-that-threatens-the-work-of-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rada has withdrawn from consideration a draft law that threatens the work of journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Verkhovna Rada removed from consideration this week draft law No. 10242, which provides for increased responsibility for the dissemination of information from state registers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/yzheleznyak\/20411\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> People&#8217;s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, the decision was made after negotiations with the first deputy head of the Servant of the People faction, Andriy Motovylovets, and the leadership of the parliament.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cBill No. 10242 has been withdrawn from consideration both tomorrow and this week,\u201d Zheleznyak wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Why the bill has drawn criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Bill No. 10242 provides for increased criminal liability for the unauthorized dissemination of information from state registers.<\/p>\n<p> Representatives of the media community warn that certain provisions of the document may create risks for journalistic investigations, the protection of sources of information, and whistleblowers of corruption.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on October 27, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-radi-znovu-planuiut-rozghlianuty-zakonoproiekt-iakyy-mozhe-obmezhyty-robotu-zhurnalistiv\/\">it became known about plans to reconsider draft law No. 10242 in the Verkhovna Rada<\/a> . The journalistic community urged deputies not to support the document without proper guarantees for the protection of the work of the media.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verkhovna Rada removed from consideration this week draft law No. 10242, which provides for increased responsibility for the dissemination of information from state registers. This was reported by People&#8217;s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak on Telegram. According to him, the decision was made after negotiations with the first deputy head of the Servant of the People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1005157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1458180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}