Friday, June 03, 2011

13 Most dangerous countries for journalists



Iraq has 88 unsolved journalist murders, or 2.794 unsolved murders per one million inhabitants
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a US-based media watchdog, has updated its 2011 Impunity Index, which calculates unsolved murders committed against reporters in relation to a country's human population.
In its full report titled Getting Away with Murder, the CPJ said Wednesday that Iraq remains at the top of the list for the fourth consecutive year for violence against journalists, where none of the 92 murdered journalist cases  were solved, in a report by Global Post.
According to the CPJ website, impunity is the main factor in evaluating the levels of freedom of journalists and speech. Unsolved anti-press crimes most often result to restriction of the freedom of the press.
The 12 other countries that received the shameful distinction in descending order based on number of murdered journalists per one million population are: Somalia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Afghanistan, Nepal, Mexico, Russia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brazil and India.
The Philippines maintained its third most dangerous country for journalists status from last year when the watchdog recorded 69 crimes since 1992, ABS CBN News said.
The CPJ stated, "Initial trial proceedings in the Maguindanao killings have been plagued by threats and bribes targeting witnesses, and incompetence and corruption among local investigators. The slow-moving prosecution has yielded no convictions thus far.
"In countries with weak law enforcement, political reporting is the most dangerous beat. Among the unsolved cases on this index, nearly 30 percent of victims had covered politics."
First published in 2008, the Impunity Index gauges countries where media people are killed regularly and the state fail to have them solved. When no convictions are made, they are considered unsolved.
Details of this report here.
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