UNESCO: 2006 is the bloodiest year for journalists
Koichira Matsuura, the Director General of UNESCO, has called on the world's nations to finish with the atmosphere of non-punishment, in which crimes against media workers are committed.
In his address on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, he on May 3 said that over 150 journalists were killed in 2006, with hundreds of media workers exposed to arrests, threats or attcks. Interfax news agency notes this is an unheard-of number of victims among journalists.
UNESCO director stressed that "any aggression against a journalist is an attack on the fundamental freedoms".
