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STORY: UN / COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
TRT: 2.43
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 12 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
12 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ):
“70 journalists were killed in 2013. 211 journalists imprisoned by the end of the year. These numbers, in our view, are the leading indicators of global press freedom conditions, and in 2013, they were at near record levels.”
5. Med shot, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ):
“Some countries, notably China, Iran, Russia, would like to see the UN take a greater role in internet governance. But what they really want is to use the UN as cover to censor, control online speech in their own countries. Instead the UN must defend and strengthen the multi state holder model of internet governance. It must support the establishment of global norms limiting government surveillance and prohibiting censorship or prior restraint.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nina Ognianova Coordinator of CPJ's Europe and Central Asia Program:
“In Russia, current climate for freedom of the press and freedom of expression, despite the international spotlight due to the Sochi Olympic Games, has not been as repressive since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia has passed multiple legislations restricting freedom of the press and freedom of expression since Putin third presidential inauguration.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nina Ognianova Coordinator of CPJ's Europe and Central Asia Program:
“In Turkey, which for the third year in a row there have been more jailed journalists that anywhere else in the world, 40 media representatives behind bars in retaliation for their work, Turkey continued to crack down on critical journalists in response to their reporting and commentary, including commentary that was made on social media.”
11. Med shot, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Keita Advocacy Coordinator for CPJ's Africa Program:
“South Sudan, unfortunately, as the newest nation in Africa, it hasn’t learned anything from the mistakes of other countries. The country from the beginning has been trending towards getting more and more repressive. We have documented patterns of censorship, arbitrary arrests, closure of media outlets, you know, reporting on corruption is very risky. So, the press is not free.”
13. Zoom out, end of press conference
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today (12 Feb) presented their annual report “Attacks on the Press – 2014 edition”, which indicates that 70 journalists were killed and 211 were imprisoned during 2013.
These numbers, according to CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon “are the leading indicators of global press freedom conditions, and in 2013, they were at near record levels.”
The 211 journalists jailed compares with a record high of 232 imprisoned the previous year. Prior to 2012, the highest number in CPJ’s annual census was 185 in 1996. CPJ has conducted the worldwide survey since 1990.
Simon, speaking to journalists in New York, noted that “some countries, notably China, Iran, Russia, would like to see the UN take a greater role in internet governance” but, he added, “what they really want is to use the UN as cover to censor, control online speech in their own countries.”
He said that instead, “the UN must defend and strengthen the multi state holder model of internet governance. It must support the establishment of global norms limiting government surveillance and prohibiting censorship or prior restraint.”
Also addressing journalists, Nina Ognianova, Coordinator of CPJ's Europe and Central Asia Program, said in Russia, “despite the international spotlight due to the Sochi Olympic Games” the current climate for freedom of the press and freedom of expression, “has not been as repressive since the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
She noted that “Russia has passed multiple legislations restricting freedom of the press and freedom of expression since Putin third presidential inauguration.”
Ognianova said that Turkey, for the third year in a row, ”there have been more jailed journalists that anywhere else in the world” as the Turkish government “continued to crack down on critical journalists in response to their reporting and commentary, including commentary that was made on social media.”
Also at the same press encounter, Advocacy Coordinator for CPJ's Africa Program Mohamed Keita said that “South Sudan, unfortunately, as the newest nation in Africa, it hasn’t learned anything from the mistakes of other countries.”
Keita said “the country from the beginning has been trending towards getting more and more repressive. We have documented patterns of censorship, arbitrary arrests, closure of media outlets, you know, reporting on corruption is very risky. So, the press is not free.”
Turkey, Iran, and China accounted for more than half of all journalists imprisoned around the world in 2013, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. In its annual census, CPJ identified 211 journalists jailed for their work, the second worst year on record after 2012, when 232 journalists were behind bars.
CPJ’s list is a snapshot of those incarcerated at 12:01 a.m. on December 1, 2013. It does not include the many journalists imprisoned and released throughout the year.
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