{"id":28033,"date":"2011-11-23T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28033"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:54:33","slug":"international-day-to-end-impunity-23-in-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28033","title":{"rendered":"Take action to end impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Day<\/a>To mark the inaugural International\u00a0Day to End Impunity<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0\u00a023 November, \u00a0<\/strong>join Index in demanding justice for journalists’ murdered in the line of duty<\/strong><\/p>\n

Freedom of Expression Organisations Call for Justice on International Day to End Impunity<\/strong><\/p>\n

London, November 23, 2011<\/p>\n

Today Index on Censorship,\u00a0Article 19<\/a>, the Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a> and English PEN <\/a>\u00a0join dozens of freedom of expression organisations around the world to mark the inaugural International Day to End Impunity.<\/p>\n

In the past 10 years, more than 500 journalists have been killed. In nine out of 10 cases, the murderers have gone free. Many others targeted for exercising their right to freedom of expression — artists, writers, musicians, activists — join their ranks.<\/p>\n

On this day two years ago the single deadliest event for the media took place when 30 journalists and two support workers were brutally killed in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, The Philippines. The journalists were part of a convoy accompanying supporters of a local politician filing candidacy papers for provincial governor. In total the \u201cMaguindanao Massacre\u201d as it has come to be known, claimed 58 victims. Not one of more than a hundred individuals suspected of involvement in the atrocity has been convicted yet.<\/p>\n

We join those in the Philippines not only in honouring their slain colleagues, friends and family members, but demanding justice for them and hundreds more in Russia, Belarus, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Colombia, Iraq and Somalia and other countries where killings of journalists and free expression activists have repeatedly gone unpunished. Above all we demand an end to the cycle violence and impunity.<\/p>\n

This year alone at least 17 journalists were murdered for their work. These include Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad<\/a>, whose body was found May 31 showing signs of torture. They include Mexican journalist and social media activist Maria Elizabeth Mac\u00edas Castro Mac\u00edas<\/a>, whose killers left a computer keyboard and a note with the journalist’s body saying she had been killed for writing on social media websites. These heinous acts not only silence the messenger, but are intended to intimidate all others from bringing news and sharing critical voices with the public.<\/p>\n

We call on governments around the world to investigate and prosecute these crimes and bring an end to impunity.<\/p>\n

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Take Action: Write a letter demanding justice for<\/a>:<\/h2>\n

1 November:\u00a0Mohammad Ismail<\/a><\/strong>
\n2 November:\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Bladimir\u00a0Antuna Garc\u00edan<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a>3 November:\u00a0Abdul Razzak Johra<\/strong>
\n<\/a>4 November:\u00a0Laurent Bisset<\/a><\/strong>
\n5 November:\u00a0Carlos Alberto Guajardo Romero<\/a><\/strong>
\n6 November:\u00a0Wadallah Sarhan<\/strong>
\n<\/a>7 November:\u00a0Ahmed Hussein al-Maliki
\n<\/a><\/strong>8 November:\u00a0Francisco Castro Menco
\n<\/a><\/strong>9 November: Dilip Mohapatra<\/a>
\n<\/strong>10 November:\u00a0Misael Tamayo Hern\u00e1ndez
\n<\/a><\/strong>11 November: Johanne Sutton, Pierre Billaud and Volker Handloik<\/a>
\n<\/strong>12 November:\u00a0Gene Boyd Lumawag<\/strong><\/strong>
\n<\/a>13 November:\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Armando Rodr\u00edguez Carre\u00f3n
\n<\/a><\/strong>14 November:\u00a0Seif Yehia\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>and\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>Ibraheem Sadoon
\n<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>15 November:\u00a0Fadia Mohammed Abid
\n<\/a><\/strong>16 November:\u00a0Olga Kotovskaya
\n<\/a><\/strong>17 November: Meher-un-Nisa
\n<\/a><\/strong>18 November:\u00a0Tara Singh Hayer<\/a><\/strong>
\n19 November: Eenadu-TV staff<\/a><\/strong>
\n20 November: Namik Taranci<\/a><\/strong>
\n21 November: Ram Chander Chaterpatti<\/a><\/strong>
\n22 November: Raad Jaafar Hamadi<\/a><\/strong>
\n23 November:\u00a0Ampatuan massacre victims<\/a><\/strong>
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