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Journalists in Danger

PBS documentary "In the Line of Fire" to re-air on June 5th

The Electronic Intifada
31 May 2003

While working as a journalist in Israel, Patricia Naylor, a Canadian TV producer, met a number of Palestinian video cameramen and still photographers who cover the frequent clashes in Hebron. These journalists work for Western media companies. Cameramen Mazen Dana and Nael Shyouki of the British news agency, Reuters, and their colleagues are accustomed to the risks of photographing street protests and riots. But displaying their wounds, they all told Naylor they had become targets of Israeli soldiers firing rubber bullets and even live ammunition. The excellent Frontline documentary is being rebroadcast on 5 June 2003 on PBS.

IFJ calls for journalists' rights and security to be made a priority in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue

International Federation of Journalists
29 May 2003

The International Federation of Journalists today called for the rights and security of journalists to be made a priority in the forthcoming dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. “It is time to set journalists free and to build democracy through dialogue, tolerance and press freedom,” says the IFJ in a letter to both sides.

Two journalists beaten by Israeli forces - testimonies

B'Tselem
21 May 2003

B’Tselem wrote to the Chief Military Prosecutor demanding that she open an investigation into the severe beating of two journalists. Sha’aban Qandil, a photographer for ANN and Joseph Handal, a photographer for France 2, suffered serious injuries as a result of a beating by IDF soldiers in Beit Sahur on Monday night.

Two Palestinian journalists beaten up by Israeli soldiers

Reporters Without Borders
21 May 2003

On 20 May 2003, RSF voiced its outrage over the violent beating which two clearly identified Palestinian journalists received from Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem. The incident took place during the night of 19 to 20 May. One of the journalists sustained an injury to his right hand that will prevent him from working for some time.

Autopsy suggests British cameraman James Miller was shot by Israeli army gunfire

Reporters Without Borders
17 May 2003

On 8 May 2003, RSF called for the punishment of those responsible for the death of British freelance cameraman James Miller on 2 May. An autopsy revealed that the the only bullet to hit him entered his body from the front. The journalist was killed as he was filming troops in the Gaza Strip.

CPJ calls for full and transparent investigation into British journalist's death

Committee to Protect Journalists
7 May 2003

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is appalled by the death of James Miller, a British free-lance journalist who was fatally shot on Friday, May 2, in the Gaza Strip.

My friend James

Cassian Harrison
6 May 2003

“Late on Friday night, I received a phone call: Reuters was reporting that a man had been shot dead in Rafah, on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. That the man was a cameraman and director called James Miller. The sense of shock and fury with which I put the phone down has still not faded: James was a man with whom I spent some of the most extraordinary times of my life, a man of talent, intelligence and integrity. A man I was plotting to go down the pub with in a few weeks’ time.” Cassian Harrison remembers her friend James in the pages of The Guardian — and joins a growing call for a complete investigation into his murder by the IDF.

IFJ demands end to military "whitewash" after top journalist is shot dead in Palestine

International Federation of Journalists
3 May 2003

Only hours after a new global campaign was launched by media leaders demanding that attempts to kill journalists should be made a war crime, a freelance journalist was shot dead in controversial circumstances by Israeli forces in Palestine.

PCHR: "No exchange of fire took place when Israeli soldiers shot dead a British journalist"

4 May 2003

An investigation conducted by PCHR and eyewitnesses’ testimonies prove that Israeli soldiers willfully shot dead James Miller, a British cameraman, contrary to the claims of the Israeli military southern command that Israeli soldiers returned fire coming from Palestinian sources at the time that Miller was shot.

UK seeks probe into Israeli shooting of cameraman

Andrew Cawthorne
3 May 2003

Israeli forces demolishing a home suspected of concealing an arms-smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip shot Miller on Friday in the flashpoint Rafah refugee camp where he was making a documentary on the impact of violence on Palestinian children, witnesses said. Abdel-Rahman Abdullah, a freelance Palestinian journalist who saw the night-time incident, told Reuters the troops opened fire unprovoked despite clear press markings on the TV crew.

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