Media News - Tuesday, February 05, 2008

65 journalists killed in world in 2007, group says

At least 65 journalists were killed around the world because of their work last year, the highest figure for 13 years, and nearly half of them died in Iraq, a leading media watchdog reported on Monday. The figure compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, in its annual report, ‘Attacks on the Press,’ was one more than that cited by the New York-based group in a Dec. 18 statement and compares with 56 in 2006. The report called the Iraq war ‘the deadliest conflict for journalists in recent history,’ with 125 journalists and 49 support workers killed since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The second deadliest country last year was Somalia, with seven media deaths. Five died in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, two in Afghanistan and Eritrea and one in Haiti, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nepal, the Palestinian territories, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Turkey, the United States and Zimbabwe. On the positive side, the report found that for the first time in years there were no work-related media deaths in the Philippines or Colombia. The report said for the ninth straight year China was the world's leading jailer of journalists, with 29 in prison, of whom 18 wrote for the Internet. Worldwide, on Dec. 1, 127 journalists were incarcerated, it said. (Reuters)

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