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.
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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.
Some press gains are reported in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan but the Color Revolutions have yet to deliver lasting reforms.
Dangerous Assignments
| Belarus, Burma, Central Asia, China, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, France, Guinea, Libya, Spain, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
See updated list of 10 Most Censored Countries at http://cpj.org/reports/2012/05/10-most-censored-countries.php. |
Although Uzbekistan's president, Islam Karimov, has told the United States that he supports press freedom, old, repressive habits die hard.
Dangerous Assignments
| Afghanistan, Benin, Central Asia, China, Colombia, Eritrea, Georgia, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe
In the months following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, journalists around the world confronted an unprecedented press freedom crisis.
Even with Milosevic in jail, Serbia and Bosnia remain dangerous for the independent press.
Dangerous Assignments
| Afghanistan, Benin, Central Asia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Liberia, Oman, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, UK, Uzbekistan, Yemen
In Azerbaijan, a press is only so free
Uzbekistan has one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world, as the author learned when she launched her journalism career in Tashkent.
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