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The Safer World investigation team thoroughly reviewed the official case files and interviewed key witnesses. On 28 April 2012, Regina Martínez Pérez was brutally murdered in her home. Regina Martínez Pérez was a prolific journalist from the state of Veracruz in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries for journalists. Regina Martínez Pérez: An opportunity for justice With local journalists, the project conducts investigations in countries such as Mexico, Pakistan and The Philippines to find new evidence. By investigating cold cases (murder cases that remain unsolved after several years), A Safer World for the Truth aims to break this cycle. They have not only lost their colleagues, but also get the message that killing the truth goes unpunished. This impunity silences other journalists as well. Murders of journalists are a direct attack on press freedom and are, often intentionally, left uninvestigated by authorities. By committing these crimes they have not only killed the journalist, but -in many cases- also killed the story. Eight out of ten cases have at least one thing in common: the perpetrators are never caught. de Vries in 2021 made headlines and hit home for many people. In The Netherlands, the murders of Dutch journalists Stan Storimans in 2008 and Peter R. This projects shows that, even after years of impunity, the wheels of #justice can be set in motion to build a world in which no one has to die for a story.Ī journalist is murdered every week.

#WHEELS IN MOTION FREE#

' A Safer World for the Truth' is a project led by press freedom organizations Free Press Unlimited, Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists, dedicated to the fight against #impunity by investigating cold cases or murders of #journalists and organizing the People's Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists. Their investigations were often crucial for the exposure of corruption and organized crime, but in nearly every case, their own murders remain uninvestigated and unpunished. What does it take to bring you your news? Over 1,400 journalists who have been murdered in reprisal for their work since 1992.

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