Number of journalists killed for their reporting doubled in 2020, finds CPJ; Mexico, Syria and Afghanistan deadliest countries According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 30 journalists were killed worldwide this year with 21 of those killings being a direct response to the reporters’ work. India reported two deaths in 2020 File image of a woman placing a candle in front of pictures of murdered journalists Miroslava Breach ( left) and Javier Valdez (right) during a demonstration against the killing of journalists, outside the Interior Ministry in Mexico City. Mexico’s prosecutor’s office said on 17 December, 2020, that another person has been detained in relation to the murder of Breach. AP
MEXICO CITY The number of journalists killed as a result of their work more than doubled in 2020, an international media watchdog group said on Tuesday, with armed conflict and gang violence making Mexico and Afghanistan among the deadliest countries for reporters globally.
At least 30 journalists were killed worldwide this year, according to the watchdog group, the Committee to Protect Journalists, with 21 of those killings carried out as a direct response to the reporters’ work, compared to 10 in 2019.
“It’s appalling that the murders of journalists have more than doubled in the last year, and this escalation represents a failure of the international community to confront the scourge of impunity,” Joel Simon, the C.P.J.’s executive director, said in a statement.
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