As of 31 December 2022, 127 journalists were reported to be in detention by the Platform, representing a 60% increase on the figure for 2021: Turkey, Belarus and Russia were the worst offenders.
Today, one year after the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Partner Organisations to the Safety of Journalists’ Platform remember the colleagues who lost their lives while covering the war, those who have endured injury, abduction, torture and suffering and express full support for all journalists who report truthfully about the war. According to alerts published on the platform, to date, twelve journalists and media workers have been killed while covering the war, or in connection with their profession, and 23 others have been injured.
as their houses collapsed, and then you have ordinary background, normal primary and secondary problems you d see in any population of this size, so a significantly increased caseload and a significantly decreased ability to deal with that, which is why we and the army are here. seb burn, we have been reporting two more border crossings will be opened up to allow aid to flow into northern syria. is that anything the british military will be involved with? as british military we do not routinely go into syria so that won t be something we will be doing, we are focused on the aid effort in turkey. we have a number of partner organisations who are working inside syria, are present inside syria, and we have been talking to them. the needs are unbelievable, it is catastrophic. so we will, as uk med, be working with partners who provide