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UNESCO Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura

UNESCO deplores murder of two Croatian media executives

30 October 2008
The United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the killing of the owner and another senior executive of a Croatian political weekly in a car bombing in the country’s capital, Zagreb, last week.

Chinese journalist barred from work wins UNESCO press freedom prize

8 April 2005
A Chinese journalist, who was imprisoned for five months and has been barred from resuming his professional activities after publishing articles revealing the 2003 SARS epidemic and the case of death in a Guangzhou police station, has been awarded a prestigious United Nations-sponsored press freedom prize.