Entries for October 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 24, 2007 For more information:Lindsey Wray(202) 496-1992LWray@iwmf.org Courage Acceptance Speech -- Saha...

Russian prosecutors say a total of nine people, including a security service official, have been charged over the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, a 2002 recipient of a Courage in Journalism Award, was killed in Moscow in October 2006.  Read the BBC article.

Salih Saif Aldin, an Iraqi reporter in The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau, was shot and killed Oct. 13 in Iraq. Aldin, 32, had taken a taxi from the bureau to interview residents in the Sadiyah neighborhood about sectarian violence. Read the article in The Washington Post.

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting has honored Sahar al-Haideri, an Iraqi reporter, with a 2007 Kurt Schork Memorial Award. Al-Haideri, 44, was a contributor to the Institute for War & Peace Reporting and Iraqi media. She was gunned down in June in Mosul after receiving death threats because of her reporting work.  Read the IWPR press release.

The killer of 2002 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award recipient Anna Politkovskaya is known to Russian authorities, the chief investigator on the case said, but no charges have been filed yet. Politkovskaya had been a reporter for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She was killed in October 2006.