俄罗斯：《新报》被迫停刊 联合国人权高专称独立媒体再遭重击
联合国人权事务高级专员福尔克尔·蒂尔克（Volker Türk）10月30日发表声明说，他对备受尊敬、立场鲜明的独立报纸《新报》（Novaya Gazeta）当天宣布被迫停刊深感关切和悲痛，称这是对俄罗斯联邦残余独立媒体的又一次毁灭性打击。
蒂尔克说，俄罗斯的独立新闻业多年来面临越来越大的限制和压力，自俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰以来，限制性立法、更严的国家控制以及对记者的骚扰和迫害显著加剧。
他说，《新报》及其记者为独立报道和捍卫人权作出了卓越贡献，常常要冒巨大个人风险；其记者遭受骚扰、诉讼、威胁和直接暴力，其中包括2006年因报道俄军在车臣侵犯人权而被谋杀的安娜·波利特科夫斯卡娅（Anna Politkovskaya）。
蒂尔克说，所谓「外国代理人」法等对自由媒体的广泛打压令人反复担忧，具有深远的寒蝉效应。他呼吁俄罗斯当局停止采取扼杀对重大公共议题报道的措施，依照国际标准允许多元声音的充分自由讨论。
Russia: UN Rights Chief Says Novaya Gazeta Closure Is Another Blow to Independent Media
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on October 30 that he was deeply concerned and saddened by the announcement that day that Russia's highly respected and fiercely independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper is being forced to close, calling it another devastating blow for remaining independent media in the Russian Federation.
Türk said independent journalism in Russia has faced mounting restrictions and pressure for many years, which have intensified significantly since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, through increasingly restrictive legislation, tighter state controls and the harassment and persecution of journalists.
Throughout its history, he said, Novaya Gazeta and its journalists have made an exceptional contribution to independent reporting and the defence of human rights, often at great personal risk; its journalists have faced harassment, lawsuits, threats and direct violence, among them Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in 2006 after reporting on human rights violations during Russia's military operations in Chechnya.
Türk said the broad clampdown on free media, including the so-called foreign agent law, has deeply chilling effects on the exercise of civil and political rights, and called on the Russian authorities to stop applying measures which stifle reporting on serious issues of legitimate public concern and to allow full and free debate with a diversity of voices.
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