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Murder and Justice: The CPJ Impunity Newsletter March 2017

In nine out of 10 murders of journalists worldwide, the killers escape justice; join the fight to end impunity! #noimpunity #endimpunity #speakjusticenow

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Journalist killings ease from record highs as murders down, combat deaths up

Deadly violence against the media eased in 2016 from recent record levels as the number of journalists singled out for murder declined. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser and Elisabeth Witchel

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CPJ Newsletter: ECOSOC accepts our application, we announce IPFA winners, and more!

August edition Pentagon updates Law of War Manual to recognize journalists’ role in covering conflict Frank Smyth, CPJ’s security consultant, was stunned when he read the newly released Law of War Manual from the U.S. Department of Defense in June 2015. The manual included language that allowed journalists to be categorized as “unprivileged belligerents,” which…

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Global Campaign Against Impunity

Global Campaign Against Impunity The murder of a journalist is the ultimate form of censorship, yet the perpetrators of such crimes are seldom held to account. In more than eight out of 10 cases where a journalist has been targeted for murder, their killers go free. The price of a story should never be that…

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More than two dozen journalists jailed in Belarus

New York, March 28, 2006—More than two dozen domestic and foreign journalists are now jailed in Belarus in connection with a tumultuous presidential campaign that included a deeply flawed March 19 vote and ensuing antigovernment protests, according to records compiled by the Belarusian Association of Journalists and other local press groups. On Monday, Canadian Foreign…

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Belarusian authorities continue press crackdown

New York, March 27, 2006—A prominent Russian journalist was detained and beaten by police, another Russian journalist was expelled, and at least six Belarusian and international journalists were handed jail sentences as Belarusian authorities continued to crack down on journalists covering the aftermath of the flawed March 19 presidential vote. Five plainclothes officers pushed Pavel…

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Belarusian election undermined by state abuses against media

Moscow, February 10, 2006—The Belarusian government’s persecution of the country’s few independent newspapers undermines the integrity of the March 19 presidential election in which Aleksandr Lukashenko seeks a third term, the Committee to Protect Journalists and two regional press freedom organizations said today. The groups called on the Russian Federation, the European Union, and the…

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Attacks on the Press 2004: Belarus

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko strangled the country’s independent and opposition media in the months before deeply flawed October elections that returned his supporters to Parliament. The obedient state media flooded the capital, Minsk, and the countryside with pro-Lukashenko propaganda, vilifying opposition leaders and urging voters to support the president or face Western domination and political…

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2004 IPFA Svetlana Kalinkina

Alexis Sinduhije |  Aung Pwint and Thaung Tun |   Paul Klebnikov  |  John Carroll

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