17.12.2013 кунлик архив
Mutabar Tadjibayeva: I demand public apologies and denials from Hürriyet Daily News!
To Secretary-General of the International Federation of Journalists Ms. Elisabeth Costa, Editor-in-chief of Hürriyet Daily News newspaper Mr.Murat Yetkin.
The primary task of the journalist is to ensure citizen’s right to accurate and objective information through truthful coverage of events, when facts are reported in proper context indicating correlation of various phenomena without distortions, being creatively processed by the journalist. In such a case, the public has a possibility to form a true picture of real developments through access to accurate information, in which roots and nature of events, development process and current state of facts are objectively reflected. (Objective coverage is the journalist’s duty – International Principles of Professional Ethics in Journalism).
UN Anti-Torture Experts Rebuke Uzbekistan for Its Abysmal Record
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights – Press release
Paris, 13 December 2013 – In an unusually scathing report that is in line with FIDH’s own findings, the United Nations’ main anti-torture body expressed its utmost concerns over the widespread and systematic use of torture in Uzbekistan. The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) called for prompt, impartial and effective investigations into all allegations of torture and ill-treatment.
