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PARIS: Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders.
\nThe two decades between 2003 and 2022 were \u201cespecially deadly decades for those in the service of the right to inform\u201d, said the Paris-based media rights campaigners.<\/p>\n
\u201cBehind the figures, there are the faces, personalities, talent and commitment of those who have paid with their lives for their information gathering, their search for the truth and their passion for journalism,\u201d RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.<\/p>\n
Iraq and Syria were the most dangerous countries to work as a journalist, accounting for \u201ca combined total of 578 journalists killed in the past 20 years, or more than a third of the worldwide total\u201d, RSF said. They are followed by Mexico (125 killed), the Philippines (107), Pakistan (93), Afghanistan (81) and Somalia (78).<\/p>\n
The \u201cdarkest years\u201d were 2012 and 2013, \u201cdue in large measure to the war in Syria\u201d. There were 144 killings in 2012 and 142 the year after, the report said.<\/p>\n
This peak was \u201cfollowed by a gradual fall and then historically low figures from 2019 onwards\u201d. But deaths increased again in 2022, in part because of the war in Ukraine. So far this year, 58 journalists have been killed doing their jobs, up from 51 in 2021.<\/p>\n
Eight journalists have been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February. This compares to a total of 12 media deaths there over the preceding 19 years.<\/p>\n
Ukraine is currently the most dangerous country in Europe for the media, after Russia itself, where 25 journalists have been killed over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince (President) Vladimir Putin took over, Russia has seen systematic attacks on press freedom \u2014 including deadly ones \u2014 as RSF has repeatedly reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey include Anna Politkovskaya\u00b4s high-profile murder on 7 October 2006,\u201d the rights group said. Elsewhere in Europe, Turkey was ranked third most dangerous, followed by France \u201cas a result of the massacre at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2015\u201d. Reporters run the greatest risks worldwide in areas where armed conflict has occurred. But, RSF stressed, \u201ccountries where no war is officially taking place are not necessarily safe for reporters and some of them are near the top of the list of those where killings have occurred. \u201cIn fact, more journalists have been killed in \u2018zones at peace\u2019 than in \u2018zones at war\u2019 during the past two decades, in most cases because they were investigating organised crime and corruption.\u201d The Americas accounted for almost half of journalist murders, many in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Honduras. \u201cAmerica is nowadays clearly the world\u00b4s most dangerous continent for the media,\u201d RSF said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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