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The index highlights countries where members of the press are killed in retaliation for their reporting and the perpetrators are released, by counting the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population.
The Committee to Protect Journalists' Global Impunity Index for 2022 found that the vast majority of murderers of journalists continue with impunity. In about 80% of the 263 murders of journalists in retaliation for their work that occurred in the world in the past decade, the perpetrators did not face Crimes no punishment.
Somalia remained the worst rank on the index for the eighth consecutive year, followed by Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq, in order, according to the committee.
The committee continues, “The index covers the period from September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2022. Each of these countries has appeared on the CPJ Index several times, as their history of conflict, political instability, and weak rule of law entrenches nature. This persistent impunity makes it unlikely that the authorities in these countries will devote the necessary resources to bringing justice to the journalists killed.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists adds, "Myanmar appeared on the index for the first time in 2022 and ranked eighth, which constitutes another institutional sign, after this country joined the ranks of countries that imprison the largest number of journalists, according to the CPJ census that took place on December 1. December 2021 imprisoned journalists around the world In the aftermath of the military coup that suspended democratic rule in February 2021, Myanmar's military junta has imprisoned dozens of journalists and used sweeping anti-state laws and dissemination of false news to suppress independent media coverage. Three journalists were also killed. At least, including two—Ai Kyaw and Su Naing—who filmed anti-regime protests and were later arrested and killed in prison.”
In its report, the committee found that “even countries with less tensions and democratically elected governments, the authorities have shown little political will to go after killers of journalists or to curb violence against the press. Instead, leaders such as Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and President Brazilian Jair Bosonaro has launched regular verbal attacks against the media, even as journalists face constant threats over critical reporting on crime, corruption and environmental issues.
According to the report, "Mexico represents one of the most egregious cases of impunity. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 28 unsolved murders of journalists over the past 10 years, more than any other country on the index in the Western Hemisphere. Mexico ranks sixth on the index, in part because the ranking is based on the country's population.Moreover, Mexico suffers from a complex web of public violence that usually makes it difficult to determine whether the killings of journalists are related to their work, meaning that the deaths that Its motives were not identified in the calculations of the country's ranking on the Committee to Protect Journalists' index."
The report states, "At least 13 journalists were killed in Mexico in the first nine months of 2022, the highest number documented by CPJ in the country in a single year. At least three of these journalists were killed in direct retaliation for their coverage. "The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating the motives for 10 other murders of journalists to determine if they are related to their work."
He continues, "The Mexican authorities bragged early this year about the large number of suspects arrested in connection with the killings of journalists, and the President's spokesman, Mr. Jesus Ramirez Suivas, indicated in March that 16 people had been detained in connection with the killing of six journalists up to Now in 2022. In the wake of the recent convictions for the high-profile murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cardenas, authorities have stepped up efforts to transfer the alleged mastermind of the crime, Damaso López Serrano, a former high-ranking member of an organized crime gang in the northern state of Sialoa. Mexico, from US prisons for trial in Mexico.However, this high rate of arrests has not led to convictions.In addition, the authorities have released some of these detainees—such as the suspects in the 2021 murder of journalist Jacinto Romero Flores—due to a lack of Evidence".
And in Brazil, which ranked ninth on the index—several events took place in 2022 that highlighted the continuing dangers that journalists face in this country. In June, British journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Perea, an expert on indigenous issues in the Amazon region, were murdered by people the police suspected of being linked to illegal fishing activities in the area. This crime highlighted the dangers faced by journalists covering the Amazon region and environmental issues in general. Earlier, in February, community journalist Givanildo Oliveira was murdered by alleged members of a criminal organization known as 'Red Command', raising concerns about the increased dangers faced by journalists in Brazil's favelas and marginalized communities.
Meanwhile, the family of Brazilian sports journalist Valerio Luis de Oliveira, who was murdered in 2012 in retaliation for his reporting on a famous football club, faced another setback in their quest for justice, as they witnessed the trial that was due to try the killers. Alleged several delays. The son of the slain journalist, attorney Valerio Luiz de Oliveira Filho, spoke with CPJ about his decade-old struggle to bring his father's killers to justice, calling it an "endless nightmare."
And in the Philippines, which ranked seventh on the index—the election of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has brought hope of a shift from former President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign of intimidation and harassment of the press. However, since Marcos Jr. took power in June, two murders have occurred, with radio journalists Percival Mabasa, an outspoken critic of Duterte and Marcos Jr., and Renato Blanco covering issues of domestic politics and corruption, raising fears that a culture of violence and impunity Punishment will continue.
Family members of slain Filipino journalist Percival Mabasa mourn his death, in Las Pinas, on the outskirts of Manila on October 4, 2022. (AFP/Jam Sta Rosa)
Pakistan and India are ranked 10th and 11th, respectively, and these two countries have appeared every year on the index since CPJ first released it in 2008, demonstrating the endemic nature of impunity and violence against the press in these countries.
During the 10-year period for the current index, from September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2022, CPJ found that 263 journalists were killed worldwide in retaliation for their work. CPJ recorded 206 of these crimes, or 78%, with complete impunity, meaning that no one was convicted for these crimes. In the previous index period (September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2021), the Committee to Protect Journalists found that 81 percent of journalist murders went unaccounted for.
The period of this release of the Index coincides with the time period of the United Nations Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, a mechanism launched in 2012 to develop programs to protect journalists and combat impunity in cases of anti-press violence. Among the plan's actions is the creation of a mechanism for interagency coordination to deal with issues related to the safety of journalists, in addition to assisting countries in developing legislation and mechanisms in favor of freedom of expression and the circulation of information. Implementation of the plan began in early 2013, but the indicator shows that the challenges of impunity remain enormous.
CPJ and partner organizations have joined forces in several recent initiatives to combat impunity around the world. One such initiative, the Safer World for Truth project, aims to investigate closed journalist murder cases, reveal new information, and demand the reopening of domestic criminal proceedings. Earlier this year, in the Special Peoples' Court project in The Hague, witnesses testified about the 2009 murder of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematong, and presented numerous evidence implicating the Ministry of Defense, then led by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who He resigned from the presidency in July.
Russia and Bangladesh dropped out of the index this year for the first time since CPJ began publishing it in 2008, with three and four unsolved murders, respectively, over the index period, a number below the necessary minimum In order to include the country concerned in the indicator. But this does not mean that press freedom or the safety environment for journalists has improved in these two countries. Bangladesh continues to imprison journalists under the Digital Security Act, one of whom died in prison—Mushtaq Ahmed—under mysterious circumstances in 2021 after suffering alleged physical abuse. While in police custody. The other defendant in the case in which Mushtaq Ahmed was arrested, a Kabir Kishore cartoonist, told CPJ that Mushtaq Ahmed was tortured while in detention.
Russia has long been among the worst countries in the world for killings of journalists, especially those who cover official corruption and human rights abuses, and they have been regularly targeted for killings. Since Vladimir Putin came to power in late 1999, at least 25 journalists have been killed in retaliation for their work. However, assassinations of journalists have declined in recent years while the space for independent reporting has shrunk. This space has been closed almost completely since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, when most of the remaining media outlets were shut down under legal and regulatory pressures and thousands of journalists were forced to flee the country amid a crackdown with disastrous results for the press in Russia.
Novaya Gazeta was formerly one of the major media for investigative journalism in Russia, and at least six of its journalists and contributors have been murdered for their brave reporting since 2000. However, in 2022 the newspaper, like hundreds of other media, found It can no longer do serious business in Russia because of the complex threats outlined above. As Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief and Nobel laureate for literature Dmitriy Muratov said in September, “In Russia, the ethnic cleansing of the media has come to an end. Russian citizens were left alone in the face of misleading government propaganda.”
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Alsumaria News - Baghdad
The Committee to Protect Journalists ranked Iraq fifth in the world in this year's global impunity index, after Somalia, Syria, South Sudan and Afghanistan.
The index highlights countries where members of the press are killed in retaliation for their reporting and the perpetrators are released, by counting the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population.
The Committee to Protect Journalists' Global Impunity Index for 2022 found that the vast majority of murderers of journalists continue with impunity. In about 80% of the 263 murders of journalists in retaliation for their work that occurred in the world in the past decade, the perpetrators did not face Crimes no punishment.
Somalia remained the worst rank on the index for the eighth consecutive year, followed by Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq, in order, according to the committee.
The committee continues, “The index covers the period from September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2022. Each of these countries has appeared on the CPJ Index several times, as their history of conflict, political instability, and weak rule of law entrenches nature. This persistent impunity makes it unlikely that the authorities in these countries will devote the necessary resources to bringing justice to the journalists killed.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists adds, "Myanmar appeared on the index for the first time in 2022 and ranked eighth, which constitutes another institutional sign, after this country joined the ranks of countries that imprison the largest number of journalists, according to the CPJ census that took place on December 1. December 2021 imprisoned journalists around the world In the aftermath of the military coup that suspended democratic rule in February 2021, Myanmar's military junta has imprisoned dozens of journalists and used sweeping anti-state laws and dissemination of false news to suppress independent media coverage. Three journalists were also killed. At least, including two—Ai Kyaw and Su Naing—who filmed anti-regime protests and were later arrested and killed in prison.”
In its report, the committee found that “even countries with less tensions and democratically elected governments, the authorities have shown little political will to go after killers of journalists or to curb violence against the press. Instead, leaders such as Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and President Brazilian Jair Bosonaro has launched regular verbal attacks against the media, even as journalists face constant threats over critical reporting on crime, corruption and environmental issues.
According to the report, "Mexico represents one of the most egregious cases of impunity. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 28 unsolved murders of journalists over the past 10 years, more than any other country on the index in the Western Hemisphere. Mexico ranks sixth on the index, in part because the ranking is based on the country's population.Moreover, Mexico suffers from a complex web of public violence that usually makes it difficult to determine whether the killings of journalists are related to their work, meaning that the deaths that Its motives were not identified in the calculations of the country's ranking on the Committee to Protect Journalists' index."
The report states, "At least 13 journalists were killed in Mexico in the first nine months of 2022, the highest number documented by CPJ in the country in a single year. At least three of these journalists were killed in direct retaliation for their coverage. "The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating the motives for 10 other murders of journalists to determine if they are related to their work."
He continues, "The Mexican authorities bragged early this year about the large number of suspects arrested in connection with the killings of journalists, and the President's spokesman, Mr. Jesus Ramirez Suivas, indicated in March that 16 people had been detained in connection with the killing of six journalists up to Now in 2022. In the wake of the recent convictions for the high-profile murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cardenas, authorities have stepped up efforts to transfer the alleged mastermind of the crime, Damaso López Serrano, a former high-ranking member of an organized crime gang in the northern state of Sialoa. Mexico, from US prisons for trial in Mexico.However, this high rate of arrests has not led to convictions.In addition, the authorities have released some of these detainees—such as the suspects in the 2021 murder of journalist Jacinto Romero Flores—due to a lack of Evidence".
And in Brazil, which ranked ninth on the index—several events took place in 2022 that highlighted the continuing dangers that journalists face in this country. In June, British journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Perea, an expert on indigenous issues in the Amazon region, were murdered by people the police suspected of being linked to illegal fishing activities in the area. This crime highlighted the dangers faced by journalists covering the Amazon region and environmental issues in general. Earlier, in February, community journalist Givanildo Oliveira was murdered by alleged members of a criminal organization known as 'Red Command', raising concerns about the increased dangers faced by journalists in Brazil's favelas and marginalized communities.
Meanwhile, the family of Brazilian sports journalist Valerio Luis de Oliveira, who was murdered in 2012 in retaliation for his reporting on a famous football club, faced another setback in their quest for justice, as they witnessed the trial that was due to try the killers. Alleged several delays. The son of the slain journalist, attorney Valerio Luiz de Oliveira Filho, spoke with CPJ about his decade-old struggle to bring his father's killers to justice, calling it an "endless nightmare."
And in the Philippines, which ranked seventh on the index—the election of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has brought hope of a shift from former President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign of intimidation and harassment of the press. However, since Marcos Jr. took power in June, two murders have occurred, with radio journalists Percival Mabasa, an outspoken critic of Duterte and Marcos Jr., and Renato Blanco covering issues of domestic politics and corruption, raising fears that a culture of violence and impunity Punishment will continue.
Family members of slain Filipino journalist Percival Mabasa mourn his death, in Las Pinas, on the outskirts of Manila on October 4, 2022. (AFP/Jam Sta Rosa)
Pakistan and India are ranked 10th and 11th, respectively, and these two countries have appeared every year on the index since CPJ first released it in 2008, demonstrating the endemic nature of impunity and violence against the press in these countries.
During the 10-year period for the current index, from September 1, 2012 to August 31, 2022, CPJ found that 263 journalists were killed worldwide in retaliation for their work. CPJ recorded 206 of these crimes, or 78%, with complete impunity, meaning that no one was convicted for these crimes. In the previous index period (September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2021), the Committee to Protect Journalists found that 81 percent of journalist murders went unaccounted for.
The period of this release of the Index coincides with the time period of the United Nations Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, a mechanism launched in 2012 to develop programs to protect journalists and combat impunity in cases of anti-press violence. Among the plan's actions is the creation of a mechanism for interagency coordination to deal with issues related to the safety of journalists, in addition to assisting countries in developing legislation and mechanisms in favor of freedom of expression and the circulation of information. Implementation of the plan began in early 2013, but the indicator shows that the challenges of impunity remain enormous.
CPJ and partner organizations have joined forces in several recent initiatives to combat impunity around the world. One such initiative, the Safer World for Truth project, aims to investigate closed journalist murder cases, reveal new information, and demand the reopening of domestic criminal proceedings. Earlier this year, in the Special Peoples' Court project in The Hague, witnesses testified about the 2009 murder of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematong, and presented numerous evidence implicating the Ministry of Defense, then led by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who He resigned from the presidency in July.
Russia and Bangladesh dropped out of the index this year for the first time since CPJ began publishing it in 2008, with three and four unsolved murders, respectively, over the index period, a number below the necessary minimum In order to include the country concerned in the indicator. But this does not mean that press freedom or the safety environment for journalists has improved in these two countries. Bangladesh continues to imprison journalists under the Digital Security Act, one of whom died in prison—Mushtaq Ahmed—under mysterious circumstances in 2021 after suffering alleged physical abuse. While in police custody. The other defendant in the case in which Mushtaq Ahmed was arrested, a Kabir Kishore cartoonist, told CPJ that Mushtaq Ahmed was tortured while in detention.
Russia has long been among the worst countries in the world for killings of journalists, especially those who cover official corruption and human rights abuses, and they have been regularly targeted for killings. Since Vladimir Putin came to power in late 1999, at least 25 journalists have been killed in retaliation for their work. However, assassinations of journalists have declined in recent years while the space for independent reporting has shrunk. This space has been closed almost completely since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, when most of the remaining media outlets were shut down under legal and regulatory pressures and thousands of journalists were forced to flee the country amid a crackdown with disastrous results for the press in Russia.
Novaya Gazeta was formerly one of the major media for investigative journalism in Russia, and at least six of its journalists and contributors have been murdered for their brave reporting since 2000. However, in 2022 the newspaper, like hundreds of other media, found It can no longer do serious business in Russia because of the complex threats outlined above. As Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief and Nobel laureate for literature Dmitriy Muratov said in September, “In Russia, the ethnic cleansing of the media has come to an end. Russian citizens were left alone in the face of misleading government propaganda.”
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