Sunday, January 20, 2008

86 journalists were killed in the world during 2007

CJITL – There were 86 journalists and 20 media assistants that were killed during 2007. This is the information CJITL got from the publication of RSF. Among these numbers, there were 17 Asian journalists and 69 were from Africa, America and Europe.
Most of these journalists were killed in Iraq. There are 47 journalists that were killed in Iraq, 8 in Somalia and 6 in Pakistan.
There are also 887 journalists that were arrested and detained and 67 were kidnapped and 1511 journalists around the world were threatened and attacked psychologically.
Year
Number of journalists that were killed
2002
25
2003
40
2004
62
2005
64
2006
85
2007
86

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