On World Press Freedom Day, TURAN's Washington DC correspondent visited Newseum, where the names of seven Azerbaijani journalists murdered for doing their jobs, have been etched onto a series of glass panels at the Journalists Memorial located between the US Capitol and the White House.
A museum dedicated to journalists and their craft, features a 74-foot-high marble tablet displaying the first words of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, declaring the right to freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.
The Newseum map highlights countries with a press that is free, partly free and not free, using color codes: countries shaded green are "free," those colored yellow are "partly free," and the red countries are "not free." Azerbaijan is "red" in a 36-foot-wide map of the 193 countries.
The Azerbaijani journalists being remembered include: Elmar Huseynov, Rafiq Tagi, Ali Mustafayev, Adil Bunyatov, Novruzali Mamedov, Chingiz Mustafayev, Fakhraddin Shakhbasov.
Among the 6,000 artifacts on display also are a part of the World Trade Center North Tower salvaged after 9/11, and eight pieces of the Berlin Wall, each of which weighs three tons.
Each day, the front pages of newspapers from around the world are displayed, and hundreds more can be accessed through touch-screen kiosks. -25В-
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