Alert to Journalists: Deforestation and Pollution, High-Risk Subjects
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June 3, 2010
On the eve of World Environment Day (5 June) , Reporters Without Borders is today releasing a report entitled “Deforestation and pollution, high-risk subjects.” Attacks on journalists and bloggers who try to cover any kind of environmental damage are growing steadily all over the world but those who investigate industrial pollution or the destruction of forests are particularly exposed.
With the help of its worldwide network of correspondents, Reporters Without Borders has gathered information about incidents in Indonesia, Argentina, El Salvador, Gabon, India, Azerbaijan, China and Morocco. Behind each of these threats and attacks, there were big corporations, criminal gangs or government officials who had been corrupted by money from mining or logging.
The latest incident was the beating that an Indonesian army officer gave to Ahmadi, a journalist in Aceh province, two weeks ago. The officer did not like a story Ahmadi had written about his involvement in illegal logging. Ahmadi joins the long list of journalists who have been targeted for shedding light on deforestation, which is responsible for at least 18 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. — Read more at Reporters Without Borders.
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