[LAF] FW: MEDIA TALK: Impunity â Pursuing Justice, Friday, 4th November, 7.30pm

[Joy Wood]

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>To: Joy Wood <joy_helbin at hotmail.com>
>Subject: MEDIA TALK: Impunity — Pursuing Justice, Friday, 4th November, 
>7.30pm
>Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:56:26 +0100 (BST)
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>MEDIA TALK
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>                   IMPUNITY
>                   - PURSUING JUSTICE
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>Friday,
>                       4th November 2005, 7.30pm
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>With John Sweeney, BBC, and Barry
>               Moody, Editor, Middle East and Africa, Reuters
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>Moderated by Sheila MacVicar, CBS
>             News
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>Paul Klebnikov, the 41-year-old editor of the Russian edition of Forbes 
>magazine,
>             spent his entire career working to expose the corruption and 
>abuses
>             of the oligarchs. His murder in Moscow on July 9th, 2004, was 
>shocking.
>             The assassination not only silenced his voice, but reinforced 
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>             idea that violence against journalists is an effective way of 
>maintaining
>             control. Klebnikov’s death — and the deaths of at least
>             12 others since Putin came to power — remains unanswered.
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>Photojournalist James Millerwas killed in the Rafah Area of the
>             Gaza Strip on 2nd May 2003 while filming a documentary. James 
>was
>             walking towards an Israeli armoured personnel carrier to ask 
>permission
>             to leave the area. He was shining a torch onto a white flag. 
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>             colleague, reporter Saira Shah, was holding a British passport 
>in
>             her hand. The team were calling out that they were British 
>journalists,
>             and were clearly marked as such. The bullet that killed James 
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>             the second of seven shots fired systematically and with 
>deliberation.
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>In April of this year, two years after James’s death, the
>             Israeli Defense Force ruled it would not take disciplinary 
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>             against the officer thought responsible for the killing. His 
>family
>             continues in its pursuit for justice.
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>According to the International News Safety Insitute, as of 20 October
>             the number of journalists and media staff confirmed dead 
>worldwide
>             in 2005 stands at 68 —in Iraq alone, 88 confirmed dead since
>             the start of the war. All were killed in the line of duty. 
>Many were
>             deliberately targeted by insurgents for assassination because 
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>             their reporting, or affiliation with a media organisation. 
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>             were killed in incidents that have not yet been explained to 
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>             satisfaction of the news organisations and agencies involved.
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>The reality is that it is nearly impossible to hold someone accountable
>             for the murder of a journalist.
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>The ultimate act of censorship is to kill the story by killing the
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>On Friday, 4th November, John Sweeney and Barry Moody join Sheila
>             MacVicar to look at ways in which to combat impunity in 
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>             Israel, and in Iraq, and what we might learn in particular 
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>             ongoing Miller and Klebnikov cases.
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