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International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
AROUND THE GLOBE
495 journalists were killed between 2014 and 2018, an 18% increase over the previous 5 years .
Only 131 cases of journalists’ killings are reported as being resolved since 2006, representing an overall impunity rate of 88% .
Beyond fatal attacks, journalists endured other violations such as physical attack, kidnapping, enforced disappearance, imprisonment and torture.
Harassment and other harmful acts are increasingly prevalent in the online sphere, and are especially dire for women journalists.
“If we do not protect journalists, our ability to remain informed and make evidence-based decisions is severely hampered. When journalists cannot do their jobs in safety, we lose an important defence against the pandemic of misinformation and disinformation that has spread online.”
António Guterres
UN Secretary-General
Photo: UN.org
38 journalists arrested between January and October this year
“DSA has become a plaything in the hands of a vested quarter who use this anti-press and anti-freedom of expression law whimsically and at will to harass and intimidate journalists and to prevent them from exposing corruption and misuse of funds that the government is presently allocating for the people, especially the poor.”
--Editors’ Council
Mohammad Shahidullah
a journalist from
Cox’s Bazar

CASES UNDER the DIGITAL SECURITY ACT

34
in 2018

63
in 2019

111 in first six months of this year –
(205 people sued; 53 of them journalists;
20 political activists, 5 teachers and 8 students)