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The Assassination of Sardasht Osman: Debunking the Official Story
Free Press Unlimited;Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Reporters Without Borders (2022), 42 pp.
"Sardasht Osman was a courageous and talented 23-year-old citizen journalist, who wrote about corruption and political mismanagement within the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in a period of political upheaval. On 13 December 2009, Sardasht wrote a satirical article accusing the family of Presiden
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An Uphill Battle: From Impunity to Justice for Journalist Murders
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Free Press Unlimited (2022), 31 pp.
"For this report we analyzed hundreds of cases of journalists who were murdered in reprisal for their work. What stands out is their courage to report misdemeanor by those in power despite the clear and often well-known risks this entails for them. What stands out as well is the lack of capacity in
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The murder of Gerry Ortega: Justice delayed, justice denied
Free Press Unlimited;Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Reporters Without Borders (2022), 30 pp.
"The murder of Gerry Ortega is indicative of structural problems concerning the safety of journalists in the Philippines; while the hitmen are often arrested, the powerful masterminds behind the killings of journalists often evade justice. Gerry Ortega was a prominent broadcast journalist and enviro
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Understanding Journalist Killings
Journal of Politics, volume 83, issue 4 (2021), pp. 1216–1228
"Why do state authorities murder journalists? We show that the majority of journalists are killed in democracies and present an argument that focuses on institutional differences between democratic states. In democracies, journalists will most likely be targeted by local state authorities that have
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Globalizing the Battle Against Impunity
In: Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World
Agnès Callamard; Lee Bollinger (eds.)
New York: Colombia University Press (2021), pp. 227-252
"When press freedom groups began a campaign against impunity, they set out to gain justice in individual cases of journalists murdered for their work. Did a global norm evolve in the process? Among the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19, is notable for its ele
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Raconter l’histoire: En souvenir d’Elisabeth Blanche Olofio
Free Press Unlimited (2021), 35 pp.
The murder of Regina Martínez Pérez: An opportunity for justice
Free Press Unlimited;Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Reporters Without Borders (2021), 33 pp.
"Regina Martínez Pérez was a prolific journalist from the state of Veracruz in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries for journalists. Since 2006, Veracruz has seen a particularly high rate of journalist murders, and on 28 April 2012, Regina Martínez Pérez was brutally murdered in her home
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Murders, Physical Assaults & Online Harassment: Silencing Journalism in Somalia. Somalia Annual Press Freedom Report 2020-2021
Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) (2021), 13 pp.
"Overall, the situation of press freedom in Somalia between May 2020 and May 2021 has continued to experience a sharp and unfortunate decline. In total, FESOJ recorded the murder of 2 journalists – as a resulted of targeted killing, 52 arrests, assault and injury to 9 reporters in the line of duty
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Press Freedom in Nigeria: Seven Unresolved Killings, Over 300 Violations Underline Impunity Under Buhari's Administration
East Legon; Abuja: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA);Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) (2021), 16 pp.
The Press-safety Paradox of Democracies: Regime-type Duration and Journalist Killings
Foreign Policy Analysis, volume 17, issue 1, oraa007 (2021), [no pag.]
"Previous research finds that journalist killings are more likely to occur in democracies rather than non-democracies. While these results provide an important first step in exploring regime type's effect on journalist's safety, they assume no variation in how long countries have remained a regime t
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Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century
Austin: University of Texas Press (2021), xiv, 288 pp.
"Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Today the country is one of the most dangerous in the world in which to be a reporter. In Surviving Mexico, Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly examine the networks of political power, business interests, and organi
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Breaking the Silence: An Investigation into the Murder of Zubair Mujahid
Free Press Unlimited;Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Reporters Without Borders (2021), 30 pp.
"Zubair Mujahid was a journalist from Mirpurkhas in Pakistan whose stories exposed corruption and human rights abuses. His stories and columns were published in the Daily Jang, an Urdu language newspaper based in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest urban centre. On 23 November 2007, Zubair was shot while
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Murders, Harassment and Assault: The Tough Wages of Journalism in Pakistan. Pakistan Press Freedom Report 2019-20
Freedom Network (2020), 15 pp.
"At least 91 cases of attacks and violations against media and its practitioners, including journalists, took place in Pakistan over the course of one year — between May 2019 and April 2020 — signifying a worryingly escalating climate of intimidation and harassment that is adversely affecting th
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"We Live in Perpetual Fear": Violations and Abuses of Freedom of Expression in Somalia
London: Amnesty International (2020), 50 pp.
"For the fifth year in a row, Somalia tops the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Global Impunity Index on countries where those who kill journalists escape prosecution. The Somali authorities rarely investigate cases of killings or attacks on journalists, media outlets and critics. At least
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Rebuilding investigative journalism. Collaborative journalism: Sharing information, sharing risk
Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, volume 14, issue 4 (2020), pp. 135-157
"This article details the role of collaborative journalism during the process of rebuilding investigative journalism at its core thus assuring enduring investment in its quality. We will start by characterizing the concepts of investigative journalism and collaborative journalism, using leading scho
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La emboscada: Asesinato y memoria de cuatro periodistas holandeses en El Salvador
San Salvador: Fundación Comunicándonos (2019), xxiv, 228 pp.
"Este libro, como pocos, cuenta la historia de todo aquello que el periodismo debería ser y, al mismo tiempo, de todas sus debilidades. Cuatro valientes guerreros de la libertad de expresión, ejerciendo su función fundamental de lanzar luz sobre graves violaciones de derechos humanos, son permane
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Intensified Attacks, New Defences: Developments in the Fight to Protect Journalists and End Impunity
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 70 pp.
"The period between 2014 through the end of 2018 has seen 495 journalists killed, according to UNESCO data, which represents an 18% increase in the number of killings as compared to the preceding 5-year period (2009-2013). Based on the number of killings, the most dangerous regions for journalists a
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Tödliche Recherche: In Indien starben vier Journalisten innerhalb von vier Jahren. Alle schrieben sie über dasselbe Thema
Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 21 (2019)
"Jagendra Singh hatte wieder und wieder über einen Minister der Regierung im Bundesstaat Uttar Pradesh berichtet, der in den illegalen Abbau von Sand involviert gewesen sein soll [...] Singh ist einer von weltweit mindestens 13 Journalisten, die seit 2009 mutmaßlich getötet wurden, nachdem sie ü
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Khashoggi case and the issue of human rights protection of journalists
Kertha Patrika, volume 40, issue 3 (2018), pp. 131-140
"Jamal Khashoggi is known for his very sharp critics to Saudi Arabian Governments. He was murdered at the Consulate facility of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul-Turkey. The case has become a concern of international society, put the questions of freedom of expression and press as well the security of journa
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Expanding Influences Research to Insecure Democracies: How Violence, Public Insecurity, Economic Inequality and Uneven Democratic Performance Shape Journalists’ Perceived Work Environments
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 645-665
"Democracies with sharp violence and public insecurity have proliferated in recent decades, with many also featuring extreme economic inequality. These conditions have not been explicitly considered in comparative research on journalists’ work environments, an omission that may obscure important r
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