Biba Klomp
09-21-2009, 12:36 PM
Journalists and media workers all over the world continue to be in the firing line. Every year across the globe, scores of journalists are targeted, brutalised and killed by unruly or ill-disciplined soldiers or by crooks and hired assassins.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world's largest organisation of journalists, has over many years attempted to gather and publish evidence on these murders, in particular focusing on the failure of governments to bring killers of journalists to justice.
According to the Brussels-based International News Safety Institute (INSI), one thousand journalists have been killed in the last ten years as a result of their work. Shockingly, nine out of ten murderers are not even prosecuted, making the killing of journalists a cheap, easy and virtually risk free method of silencing critics.
During the Moscow World Congress in 2007, the IFJ launched an investigation into the deaths of the three hundred Russian journalists killed since 1993. The resulting report, ‘Partial Justice: an Investigation into the Deaths of Journalists in Russia since 1993’ was launched in Moscow in June 2009.
Please see attached the English and Russian versions of the report.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world's largest organisation of journalists, has over many years attempted to gather and publish evidence on these murders, in particular focusing on the failure of governments to bring killers of journalists to justice.
According to the Brussels-based International News Safety Institute (INSI), one thousand journalists have been killed in the last ten years as a result of their work. Shockingly, nine out of ten murderers are not even prosecuted, making the killing of journalists a cheap, easy and virtually risk free method of silencing critics.
During the Moscow World Congress in 2007, the IFJ launched an investigation into the deaths of the three hundred Russian journalists killed since 1993. The resulting report, ‘Partial Justice: an Investigation into the Deaths of Journalists in Russia since 1993’ was launched in Moscow in June 2009.
Please see attached the English and Russian versions of the report.