(RSF/IFEX) – A roundtable organized in Moscow on 19 September 1997 by Reporters sans frontieres (RSF), the Glasnost Defence Foundation and the Russian Journalists’ Union brought together dozens of journalists, media executives and representatives of groups and government departments concerned about the problem of journalists who are taken hostage. **For background, see IFEX press release […]
(RSF/IFEX) – A roundtable organized in Moscow on 19 September
1997 by Reporters sans frontieres (RSF), the Glasnost Defence
Foundation and the Russian Journalists’ Union brought together
dozens of journalists, media executives and representatives of
groups and government departments concerned about the problem of
journalists who are taken hostage.
**For background, see IFEX press release dated 17 September
1997**
At the conclusion of the roundtable, four measures were drawn up
by participants regarding journalists taken hostage:
-inform journalists about how they should react in the event that
they are taken hostage. This practical advice is based on the
experience of Russian journalists who had been taken hostage in
the Commonwealth of Independent States over the past few months.
-coordinate action among Russian media, in the event of a
hostage-taking, so that a common front is assumed.
-coordinate assistance to the families of journalists who have
been taken hostage or who have been the victims of other acts of
aggression (murder, imprisonment, disappearance, etc).
-provide for the international circulation of information
concerning the physical aggression of journalists as well as
other attacks on press freedom.
