16 March 2005

CPJ RELEASES ANNUAL PRESS FREEDOM SURVEY


The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released its annual global survey of press freedom, highlighting deteriorating conditions for media in Russia and most of the former Soviet republics.

"Nowhere are new, harsh realities more evident than in Russia, where a purge of independent voices on national television and an alarming suppression of news coverage during the Beslan hostage crisis marked a year in which President Vladimir Putin increasingly exerted Soviet-style control over the media," says CPJ.

In its survey "Attacks on the Press in 2004", CPJ says that of the 15 former Soviet republics assessed, strong press freedom traditions have been established in only three countries - Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. In the other countries, the press operates with less freedom than it did in the closing years of Soviet communism.

The CPJ survey also records 56 journalists killed world-wide because of their work - the highest death toll since 1994, when 66 were killed.

Read the report here: http://www.cpj.org/attacks04/pages/attacks04index.html



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