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Foreign Minister Stef Blok (VDD) releases 1.45 million euros for journalists in need. With this money, the minister wants to fund the program The Safety of Media Professionals of the NGO Free Press Unlimited, which strives to protect journalists during their work.
In a statement, Blok claims that press freedom in the world is under pressure. "An attack on a journalist is an attack on democracy Without good journalism, good governance is impossible."
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Read also: In this latest Washington Post column, sent on the day of his disappearance, Jamal Khashoggi pleads for freedom of the press.
In the first half of 2018 49 journalists were certainly murdered, according to figures from the International Press Institute (IPI). In the meantime, there are already 73. In eight of the ten cases, these murders have still not been resolved, according to the ministry statement. One of the last examples is the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who wrote the Washington Post before . He was killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul.
Journalists were also murdered in the European Union last year. For example, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak and recently Bulgarian TV presenter Viktoria Marinova.
Minister Blok, who visited Nigeria on Tuesday, participates on Friday in the "International Day Against Impunity for Violence Against Journalists" at the Peace Palace, La. Hague. He also awards a prize to a journalist who has shown extraordinary courage and persistence.
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