New York, Jul 27 2010 1:10PM
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding press freedom today deplored the death of a senior reporter for a daily newspaper due to injuries sustained in a bombing in northern India earlier this month.
Vijay Pratap Singh, 38, who worked for the Indian Express, was wounded in an attack against a local politician in the city of Allahabad on 12 July. Eight days later he succumbed to those injuries.
He was visiting a Cabinet minister from Uttar Pradesh state and had just stepped out of the official's residence when a bomb was detonated, wounding seven people, including Nand Gopal Nandi, the state's Institutional Finance Minister.
"Freedom of expression, a fundamental human right essential to a democratic society, can only exist if journalists can do their work in safety," said Irina Bokova, Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (<"www.unesco.org/">UNESCO).
"I call on the Indian authorities to do everything in their power to bring the culprits of this attack to justice, and to ensure there is no impunity."
Jul 27 2010 1:10PM
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