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"Reporters without borders": Aliyev and Talybov on the list of predators of press in 2013
On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders is releasing an updated list of 39 Predators of Freedom of Information – presidents, politicians, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations that censor, imprison, kidnap, torture and kill journalists and other news providers. Powerful, dangerous and violent, these predators consider themselves above the law.
“These predators of freedom of information are responsible for the worst abuses against the news media and journalists,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “They are becoming more and more effective. In 2012, the level of violence against news providers was unprecedented and a record number of journalists were killed. World Press Freedom Day, which was established on the initiative of Reporters Without Borders, must be used to pay tribute to all journalists, professional and amateur, who have paid for their commitment with their lives, their physical integrity or their freedom, and to denounce the impunity enjoyed by these predators.”
To draw attention to their abuses, Reporters Without Borders has drafted indictments against some of these predators in the hope that they will one day be brought before competent courts. To better highlight the gulf between propaganda and reality, the statements of some of them have been contrasted with the facts. And to show how some predators really think, we have presented their innermost thoughts in the first person. We had to use a little imagination, of course, but the facts alluded to conform to reality.”
Note that this year 2 of the 39 "predators", as in 2012, are representatives of Azerbaijan - President Ilham Aliyev and his faithful companion in Nakhchivan, Vasif Talybov. Read the essays on the "predators" here.
http://en.rsf.org/predator-ilham-aliyev,44544.html
http://en.rsf.org/predator-vasif-yusif-oghlu-talibov,44553.html
Note that only Iran and Azerbaijan were awarded the "honor" to have two "predators of press».-02D-
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- 3 May 2013 12:12
Politics
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