Last year more than 100 journalists were killed while on reporting duty, making it the bloodiest year on record for journalism, according to IPI’s statistics.
Of the 100 journalists killed last year, forty-eight were killed in the Middle East and North Africa alone. 46 of which were killed in Iraq, once again proving Iraq to be the most dangerous country in the world for journalists.
I am off to an assembly for the International Press Institute (IPI), an international free press organization, meeting in Istanbul. We’ll soon be starting a special section called Journalists Under Fire that will feature communiques and alerts from IPI and other international press organizations involving suppression of journalists in countries all over the world.
Here is the latest press release from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) concerning the recent murder of three journalists in Iraq.