Thursday, 22 December 2011PARIS - Sixty-six journalists were killed worldwide in 2011, many of them covering Arab revolutions, gang crime in Mexico or political turmoil in Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Thursday.
Ten journalists were killed in Pakistan, most of them murdered, making it the most dangerous country for news coverage for the second year running.
With pro-democracy demonstrations prompting violent reprisals from Arab governments, the number of reporters killed in the Middle East doubled to 20 this year.
A similar number were killed in Latin America, where criminal violence was rife, the Paris-based RSF said in a statement.
Some 1,044 journalists were arrested this year - nearly double the 2010 figure - due largely to the Arab Spring, as well as street protests in countries including Greece, Belarus, Uganda, Chile and the United States.
"From Cairo's Tahrir Square to Khuzdar in southwestern Pakistan, from Mogadishu to the cities of the Philippines, the risks of working as a journalist at times of political instability were highlighted more than ever in 2011," RSF said. |
Thursday, 22 December 2011
The Jerusalem Post
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