WASHINGTON--In August 2 testimony on Capitol Hill, CPJ urged the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe to use diplomatic pressure to combat impunity in journalist murders in Russia and other former Soviet states. Here are excerpts of remarks given by Nina Ognianova, CPJ's Europe and Central Asia program coordinator.
Committee to Protect Journalists
Central Asia
2007
Long before Anya Politkovskaya was slain, her newspaper suffered devastating losses. Yet Novaya Gazeta pushes ahead, investigating corruption, abuse and the deaths of its own reporters.
Dangerous Assignments
| Central Asia, Faded_Colors, Georgia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
Some press gains are reported in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan but the Color Revolutions have yet to deliver lasting reforms.
| Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Central Asia, China, Iran, Iraq, Philippines, Russia, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka
March 2007
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
Afghan-Pakistani border off-limits to most journalists
By Bob Dietz
The Afghanistan-Pakistan border is a critical front in the most challenging news story in the world: the confrontation between U.S.-led Western countries and militant Islamists. Yet access to the border region has become increasingly restricted, and the Pakistani government continues to do everything in its power to dissuade outside journalists from entering. Few local journalists are left, most having fled or simply stopped working in what has become a high-risk profession, according to the Tribal Union of Journalists.
Attacks on the Press
| Azerbaijan, Belarus, Central Asia, Georgia, Germany, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine
Getting away with murder in the former Soviet states
By Nina Ognianova
By Nina Ognianova
The assassin in a baseball cap who gunned down Anna Politkovskaya outside her Moscow apartment used a silencer. But reverberations from the contract-style slaying of Russia's icon of investigative journalism were felt around the world.
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| Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Colombia, Cuba, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Venezuela
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