An overwhelming lack of justice for murdered journalists is a major threat to press freedom. More than a decade after the United Nations declared an International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists – and more than 30 years after CPJ began documenting these killings – nearly 80% remain unsolved. A CPJ report. Two...

Two small nations – Haiti and Israel – are now the world’s biggest offenders in letting journalists’ murderers go unpunished, according to CPJ’s 2024 Global Impunity Index, which measures unsolved murders in proportion to a country’s population. This year is the first time Israel has appeared in CPJ’s index since its inception in 2008.

  • Zacpod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Isreal only lets journalist murders go unpunished because it’s the IDF doing the murdering. They’re not going to prosecute their Schutzstaffel, after all.

    Haiti, otoh, seems to be crime ridden and just unable to properly investigate as a result.