Media News - Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Study reveals impunity in journalist deaths in the Americas

The Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression has published the results of a study about the investigations of journalists’ murders between 1995 and 2005 in the Americas. The study is available at Organization of American States (OAS). According to study, between 1995 and 2005 157 journalists were killed in 19 countries in the Americas. At of the end of 2007, only 32 of these cases had resulted in some type of conviction. The largest numbers of murders took place in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. In Colombia, 75 reporters were killed, but only seven cases resulted in convictions. In Brazil, convictions have been set in only nine of 23 murders. In Mexico, of the 20 murders of journalists, only in four cases have there been convictions. In Guatemala, none of the 9 cases were solved, and in Haiti, only two of six murder cases resulted in a conviction. (International Journalists Network)

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