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Press freedom: Deliberately targeted for doing their jobs

news.amnesty | 03.05.2004 12:43 | Globalisation | Repression

Kofi Anan, speaking on World Press Freedom Day last year, said that most journalists who die in the line of duty around the world are murdered -- "deliberately targeted, as individuals, for exposing corruption or abuses of power; for opposing entrenched interests, legal or illegal; in short, for doing their jobs."

National Union of Journalists plaque
National Union of Journalists plaque


In times of political strife, journalists are often among the first victims when groups turn to violence to achieve their aims.

In a feature marking World Press Freedom Day, news.amnesty looks at the range of challenges and obstacles facing journalists and restricting press freedom - from conflicts to state repression to narrowing media ownership.

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And many more

05.05.2004 12:17

And many more stoke the foetid fires of capitlaism aiding misery and repression around the globe with the military-industrial agenda. Thank Godthing for Indymedia. May the trolls burn in hell.

Richard Desmond ( call me dick )