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Mapping Media Freedom Q3 2016 Belarus: 14 Poland: 9 MAPPING MEDIA FREEDOM Q3 2016 BELARUS: 14 POLAND: 9 UKRAINE: 44 HUNGARY: 9 RUSSIA: 58 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: 12 AZERBAIJAN: 15 TURKEY: 114 GREECE: 9 MMF 2016 Q3 | Between 1 July and 30 September MMF’s network of correspondents, partners and other OVERVIEW sources submitted a total of 406 verified reports of threats to press freedom, a 19% rise from the second quarter of 2016.¹ ABOUT MAPPING MEDIA FREEDOM Each report is fact-checked with local During the third quarter of 2016, four journalists sources before becoming available were killed; 54 incidents of physical assault were on the interactive map. The number AN UNPRECEDENTED reported; 107 media professionals were arrested; of reports per country relates to the 150 were detained and released; 112 reports number of incidents reported to the of intimidation, which includes psychological map. The data should not be taken SERIES OF CRACKDOWNS abuse, sexual harassment, trolling/cyberbullying as representing absolute numbers. and defamation, were made; journalistic work For example, the number of reported was censored or altered 29 times; and media incidents of censorship appears low ON MEDIA PROFESSIONALS professionals were blocked from covering a story given the number of other types of in 89 cases. incidents reported on the map. This could be due to an increase in acts of AND NEWS OUTLETS TOOK An important factor in the rise in media violations intimidation and pressure that deter was the attack on Turkey’s democratically- media workers from reporting such elected government on 15 July. Following the cases. failed coup attempt, Turkish authorities forced PLACE DURING THE THIRD more than 2,500 journalists out of their jobs, The platform – a joint undertaking with arrested and prosecuted 98 under trumped-up the European Federation of Journalists criminal charges, detained 133 and seized or and Reporters Without Borders, QUARTER OF 2016 AS shut down 133 media outlets. partially funded by the European Commission – covers 42 countries, “Dissenting voices have long been stifled including all EU member states, plus RECORDED BY INDEX ON in Turkey; however, the state of emergency, Bosnia, Iceland, Kosovo, Macedonia, introduced in response to the failed coup attempt Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, of 15 July, is now being used to legitimise an Albania along with Ukraine, Belarus CENSORSHIP’S MAPPING unprecedented crackdown on independent and and Russia in (added in April 2015), opposition media,” said Index senior advocacy and Azerbaijan (added in February officer Melody Patry. 2016). The platform marked its MEDIA FREEDOM PROJECT. two-year anniversary in May 2016 Media freedom also continued to deteriorate and recorded over 2,400 incidents with a notable increase of the use of violent threatening media freedom by the end intimidation and censorship tactics to silence of the third quarter of 2016. journalists throughout European Union member states, candidates for entry and ¹Some reports contain multiple updates and therefore the number of reports does not represent the total neighbouring countries. number of media freedom violations monitored. 1 2 MMF 2016 Q3 | VIOLATIONS DEATHS Four journalists were killed in the third Italy. In Russia, 12 reports were filed to the quarter. In Turkey, soldiers shot and killed map. Elena Kostyuchenko, a correspondent for Mustafa Cambaz, a photographer with the pro- independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and government newspaper Yeni Safak. In Ukraine, Diana Khachatryan, a reporter for independent Pavel Sheremet, a Belarusian journalist working Takie Dela website, were assaulted twice for online investigative newspaper Ukrayinska over the course of one day in Beslan, North Pravda and Radio Vesti, was killed in a car Ossetia. Publisher of the newspaper Moskovski explosion; journalist and founder of news agency Komsomolets Chernozemye Denis Shaikin FOUR JOURNALISTS, Novy Region Alexander Shchetinin was found was severely beaten inside a police station. In INCIDENTS OF dead with a bullet wound to the head in his Ukraine, 11 reports of violence were recorded. apartment in Kiev. In Russia, Andrey Nazarenko, Serhiy Medianyk, a journalist working for the MUSTAFA CAMBAZ, a cameraman for state TV channel Russia-1 anti-corruption programme StopCor, and his PHYSICAL ASSAULT was found dead in his apartment in Moscow with crew were repeatedly assaulted when they were PAVEL SHEREMET, two bullet wounds – one in the head and one in reporting on alleged illegal activities. Medianyk AND INJURY his body. was hospitalised with a concussion. In Italy, ALEXANDER SHCHETININ reporters were injured in eight separate incidents. WERE DOCUMENTED “With nine out of every 10 murders of journalists Political correspondent for La Gazzetta di Parma, AND ANDREY NAZARENKO never solved, the vicious cycle of impunity still Pierluigi Dallapina, was punched by an alleged IN TOTAL prevails. It has to be broken. There can be no supporter of the centre-left Democratic Party exception to the very basic rule that all attacks and then treated in hospital. He was reportedly WERE KILLED on journalists must be investigated quickly and unable to work for four days. IN Q3 2016. thoroughly. We should never give up the fight for DURING Q3 2016. journalists’ safety and the struggle to end impunity Attacks on journalists continued to occur at for crimes committed against journalists,” Dunja far-right rallies. Members of the Greek neo- Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of nazi party Golden Dawn assaulted journalists the Media, said. who were covering a protest against a refugee detention centre on the island of Chios. Two PHYSICAL ASSAULTS AND INJURY photographers were assaulted by supporters of In total, 54 incidents of physical assaults and the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany injury were documented, with more than half party following the party’s electoral success in of incidents occurring in Russia, Ukraine and regional parliamentary elections. 3 4 MMF 2016 Q3 | VIOLATIONS IN Q3 2016, 107 MEDIA PROFESSIONALS WERE ARRESTED AND 150 WERE DETAINED AND RELEASED. ARREST / DETENTION A total of 107 media professionals were arrested director of Azadliq newspaper, an outlet often independent regional website The Caucasian “The situation in the Caucasus and 150 detained in the third quarter. On 25 critical of the state, was detained and arrested on Knot, was sentenced to three years in jail on July, nine days after the failed coup, Turkish multiple charges. Seven media professionals were allegedly trumped-up drug possession charges. remains extremely dangerous for authorities began to crackdown on the press with detained or arrested in Russia. Police detained The state-owned Polish Security Printing Works journalists. Alleged kidnappings, the first wave of arrest warrants for 42 journalists Kristina Gorelik, a Radio Free Europe/Radio initiated two lawsuits against media outlets. assaults and arrests on spurious on the basis of being part of the “so-called media Liberty correspondent, while she was filming The Printing Works asked a court on 31 August leg of terrorist” Gülenist Terror Organisation a documentary about Valentina Cherevatenko, to bar the national left-liberal daily Gazeta charges continued to occur in (FETÖ). Reporters were targeted regardless of the director of human rights NGO Don Women. Wyborcza from publishing articles about the the third quarter. The ongoing publications they were affiliated with. The second Three journalists were detained in Greece. Stratis government-owned company for one year. The wave targeted Zaman newspaper when on 27 Balaskas, the then editor-in-chief of Empros, was second lawsuit was filed against Ringier Axel violence against journalists July authorities issued warrants for the detention given a three-month prison sentence for calling a Springer Polska and its weekly Newsweek on has had a pernicious effect of 47 former executives or senior journalists of school director a “neo-Nazi”. 28 September, for reputational damage. In the newspaper, which was seized by government Belarus, nine articles published on the pro- on press freedom and, as a trustees in March 2016. CRIMINAL CHARGES / CIVIL LAWSUITS opposition website 1863x.com were declared result, journalists are often too All 98 journalists arrested in Turkey were charged. “extremist” as part of a case against detained Nine journalists were detained and 17 were The majority were accused of being linked to editor-in-chief, Eduward Palchys, who is frightened to report on topics the arrested in the other 41 countries monitored by FETÖ, which officials say orchestrated the failed currently facing charges of inciting hatred. authorities might not tolerate.” the project. Ahead of a September constitutional coup attempt on 15 July. Prominent cases referendum in Azerbaijan, four journalists were also occurred in Russia, Poland and Belarus. HANNAH MACHLIN, detained and two were arrested. Faig Amirli, the Journalist Zhalaudi Geriev, working for the Project officer for Mapping Media Freedom 5 6 MMF 2016 Q3 | ATTACKS TO PROPERTY INTIMIDATION Media professionals were subject to attacks to The platform documented a 37% rise of debated what has been dubbed the “snoopers’ VIOLATIONS their property 49 times. Six arson attacks were intimidation against journalists over the third charter,” which, as part of the Investigatory Powers JOURNALISTS carried out in Ukraine, Cyprus and Italy. The quarter totalling 112 incidents, of which 16 Bill, would allow the “relevant public authorities” studios of the national Ukrainian
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