Statement
Thursday November 2nd, 2023
Justice for Human Rights -JHR
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/68/163 in its sixty-eighth session in 2013, declaring November 2nd as the “International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists” (IDEI).
This resolution urged member states to take specific measures to end impunity for crimes committed against journalists.
This date was chosen in remembrance of the assassination of French journalists in Mali on November 2nd, 2013.
On this occasion, JHR emphasizes the need to activate legal and judicial measures against perpetrators of crimes against journalists, particularly in the Middle East, and in specific countries that have committed crimes against journalists.
The most prominent of these countries are Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Israeli occupation authorities in Palestine.
Egyptian journalists have been killed by Egyptian police gunfire, and no investigations have been opened into their killings, nor have those responsible been held accountable.
On this International Day, we remember the journalists who were killed, and their number is 9, they are:
1. Ahmed Assem – was killed on July 19, 2013, by sniper fire while covering what became known as the Republican Guard massacre by the army forces in front of the Republican Guard Club.
2. Habiba Abd El Aziz was killed on August 14, 2013, during the dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in.
3. Mosab Mustafa Al-Shami was killed on August 14, 2013, during the dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in.
4. Ahmed Abdel Gawad was killed on August 14, 2013, during the Rabaa Al-Adawiya massacre.
5. Mick Deane, a British photojournalist working for Sky News, was killed on August 14, 2013, during the dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in.
6. Mohamed Samir, a director at Nile News channel, was killed while covering the events at Ramses Square in front of the Azbakeya police station on August 17, 2013.
