On Wednesday, December 15, the YABLOKO party will conduct
a memorial action paying tribute to murdered journalists.
The picket will take place on the Journalists Memorial Day
devoted to journalists who were killed in the line of their
duty and conducted by the Russian Journalists’ Union.
The action will take place by the Griboyedov monument at
Chiastiye Prudy. YABLOKO’s activists will hold photographs
of murdered journalists with the dates when they were killed.
The activists will also hold a banner with a question “No
one brought to account?” against a background of photos of
the journalists whose murders have been still uninvestigated.
Thus the murderers of P.Khlebnikov (The Forbes), I.Domnikov,
Yu.Schekochikhin, A.Politkovskaya (Novaya Gazeta), A.Sidorov,
V.Ivanov (Toliattinskoye Obozreniye) E.Markevich (Noviy Ref),
Ya.Yaroshenko (Korruptzia I Prestupnost), V.Krivosheyev (Komsomolskaya
Pravda, Lipetsk), Larissa Yudina (Sovietskaya Kalmykia) and
many other were not found. The activists will light candles
in memory of the killed journalists.
The action will begin at 4 p.m.
Address: metro station Chistiye Prudy, Chistoprudniy boulevard,
by Griboyedov’s monument.
See also:
Freedom
of Speech
Human
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