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US Center for Defense Journalism reports on press freedom

06 February 2007 13:27 (UTC +04:00)

US Center for Defense Journalism has released a report on freedom of media in the world countries in 2006, the Center told the APA.
The report notes that the situation on freedom of media improved last year.
â€œNevertheless, countries like Russia and Venezuela try to control media and impose a censure. In some CIS countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan there are cases of violence of journalist rightsâ€?, the report reads.
The report also stresses that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev considered the assassination of Elmar Huseynov, editor-in-chief of local â€œMonitorâ€? journal, as a crime against the government and terror act.
The report underlines the detention of three Azeri journalists- Sakit Zahidov, Samir Sedagetoglu and Rafig Tagi.
55 reporters were killed last year. 32 of them were killed in Iraq, 6 in Afghanistan and Philippine. According to the information for December, 134 journalists are in prisons of 24 countries. /APA/