Between 1992 and 2018, 1323 journalist have been killed. Is a journalist job dangerous? If you want to share the truth for the world, do you have to risk your life or even family’s safety? In 2001 there were 37 victims, journalists whose life ended while they were just doing their job and one of them was Russian journalist Eduard Markevich.
Eduard Markevich, editor and publisher of Novy Reft, the local newspaper in the town of Reftinsky, Sverdlovsk Region, was found dead on September 18. He had been shot in the back. He was 29 years old. Novy Reft often criticized local officials, and Markevich's colleagues told the Itar-Tass news service that he had received threatening telephone calls prior to the attack.
This was not the first attack on Markevich, the Region-Inform news agency reported. In 1998, two unknown assailants broke into his apartment and severely beat him in front of his pregnant wife. They were never caught. Last year, Markevich was illegally detained for 10 days after the local accuser’s office charged him with libel over a Novy Reft article questioning the propriety of a profitable government contract that gave a former deputy prosecutor the exclusive right to represent the Reftinsky administration in court. In May 2001, federal prosecutor general Vladimir Ustinov reprimanded the local prosecutor for violating Markevich's constitutional rights. Police have launched an investigation into Markevich's murder. Almost four months after the journalist's death, authorities have made no progress, the Moscow-based Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations has reported. Markevich's wife continues to publish Novy Reft.
As I said, the murders of Eduard Markevich have not been found and other journalists are in danger too. Their lives could end at any second.
Eduard Markevich, editor and publisher of Novy Reft, the local newspaper in the town of Reftinsky, Sverdlovsk Region, was found dead on September 18. He had been shot in the back. He was 29 years old. Novy Reft often criticized local officials, and Markevich's colleagues told the Itar-Tass news service that he had received threatening telephone calls prior to the attack.
This was not the first attack on Markevich, the Region-Inform news agency reported. In 1998, two unknown assailants broke into his apartment and severely beat him in front of his pregnant wife. They were never caught. Last year, Markevich was illegally detained for 10 days after the local accuser’s office charged him with libel over a Novy Reft article questioning the propriety of a profitable government contract that gave a former deputy prosecutor the exclusive right to represent the Reftinsky administration in court. In May 2001, federal prosecutor general Vladimir Ustinov reprimanded the local prosecutor for violating Markevich's constitutional rights. Police have launched an investigation into Markevich's murder. Almost four months after the journalist's death, authorities have made no progress, the Moscow-based Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations has reported. Markevich's wife continues to publish Novy Reft.
As I said, the murders of Eduard Markevich have not been found and other journalists are in danger too. Their lives could end at any second.