PACE called for additional measures for effectively protecting journalists’ lives
PanARMENIAN.Net
26.01.2007 13:59 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ PACE calls for parliamentary investigations into the
unresolved murders of journalists and announces a specific monitoring
mechanism. While underlining the importance of Article 10 of the
European Convention on Human Rights for the protection of media freedom
throughout Europe, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)
today called for additional measures for effectively protecting the
lives and freedom of expression of journalists. The Assembly called
on the Russian Parliament to closely monitor the progress of the
criminal investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya and to
hold the authorities accountable for any failure to investigate or
prosecute. It also asked the Turkish Parliament to abolish Article
301 of the penal code on the "denigration of Turkishness". As regards
the murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze, the Assembly
expressed concern at the lack of progress in the investigation,
reports the Parliamentary Assembly Communication Unit.