Venue: Hofburg Congress Center on Heldenplatz, Ratsaal Room (5Th Floor)
Venue: Hofburg Congress Center on Heldenplatz, Ratsaal room (5th floor) Journalism is a dangerous profession. When Sadly, the list does however not end here. reporting at times of war and embedded in When reporting to the OSCE Permanent conflict zones, living with danger is part of the Council on his interventions made between job description. However, increasingly also July and November 2018, the OSCE journalists working in democratic societies Representative on Freedom of the Media have to live with this fear. More and more (RFoM) brought with him a list of 170 cases often, reports emanate of journalists being from the OSCE region, 53 of which related to harassed, intimidated, abducted, interrogated, the safety of journalists. This included 14 arbitrarily detained and/or imprisoned, or even cases of physical violence, two shootings, killed for the work they do. one arson attack, as well as a number of Some of the most horrifying examples include threats of physical violence. the assassination of Maltese journalist, writer Too many of these cases are either and anti- corruption activist Daphne Caruana investigated too slowly or remain without Galizia in June 2017 and Slovak investigative conclusive result. They too often end without journalist Ján Kuciak in February 2018, as perpetrators and instigators being brought to well as that of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal justice. In 2017, the Office of the RFoM put Khashoggi in October 2018. The deaths of together a report on journalist killings in the these journalists, including the killing of five OSCE region since 1992. The result is Capital Gazette staff in June 2018 and the chilling: more than 400 journalists paid the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo ultimate price for their work.
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