In this section you will find photographs of violations against journalists. The photos are courtesy of Agence France Presse (AFP) and the European Press Photo Agency (EPA).
Newspapers can freely publish the photos, with credit to AFP and EPA. Click on the photo to download. Publication embargo: These materials should not be published before 3 May, World Press Freedom Day.
  A Palestinian woman points at the blood stains of British documentary filmmaker James Miller, 35, as his helmet and bullet-proof jacket lie at the scene were he was killed on 2 May 2003. Miller was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Rafah Refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip. He was in Gaza making a documentary on the Israeli army’s destruction of the homes of militants in the Palestinian territories. Photo courtesy of AFP
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  AP-photographer Musa Sadulajew tries to help his colleague Adlan Chasanow, a journalist with the British news agency Reuters, who was killed in a bomb attack in the Dynamo stadium in Grozny, Chechnya on 9 May 2004. Six people died in the attack, among them, Chechen President Kadyrow. Photo courtesy of EPA
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  Bassam Masoud, a cameraman for Reuters Television, sustained head injures in an explosion in the Southern Gaza strip near Rafah that killed at least three Palestinians and injured another 15 people on 3 August 2004. Witnesses claim that Israeli troops had fired shells and rockets from various tanks and helicopters. The official military report claimed that the Palestinians were killed while attempting to plant bombs. Photo courtesy of EPA
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  Palestinian cameramen and photographers light candles in the West Bank city of Nablus to commemorate killed cameraman Nazeh Darwazi. Darwazi, a journalist for both Palestinian television and the US Associated Press Television Network, was killed in the central Casbah district of Nablus on 19 April, 2003, while filming clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians. Photo courtesy AFP
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  Palestinian medics evacuate the body of Nazeh Darwazi, 42, killed on 19 April in the West Bank City of Nablus. Darwazi worked as a journalist for both Palestinian television and the US Associated Press Television Network. He was shot dead in the central Casbah district while filming the clashes. Photo courtesy of AFP
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  Spanish cameramen demonstrate in front of the American embassy in Madrid to protest the death of journalists during the war in Iraq. During an American shell attack on the Hotel Palestine in Baghdad on the 8 April 2003, Ukrainian cameraman Taras Protsyuk (35) and Spanish cameraman José Couso (37) were killed. Photo courtesy of EPA
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  Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist, was beaten to death in Tehran in June 2003. Kazemi was in Iran covering student demonstrations when she was arrested. Initially claiming the journalist died from a stroke, Iranian authorities admitted her brain haemorrhage resulted from beatings she received while under arrest. The prison guard accused of the murder was acquitted. Fellow Iranian journalists commemorate their slain colleague at a candlelight vigil. Photo courtesy of AFP
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