More than 1,600 journalists have paid for their work with their lives over the past 20 years. 95 percent of all victims are men, reports the organization Reporters Without Borders. One country was particularly dangerous.
According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a total of 1,657 journalists have been killed on or because of their work over the past 20 years. This happened in response to murders, robberies, attacks in war zones or after injuries. 95 percent of all media workers killed are men.
On April 7, 20 years ago, German journalist Christian Liebig, who was accompanying a US Army unit for Focus, was killed in Iraq when a missile hit the unit’s headquarters. His Spanish “El Mundo” colleague Julio Anguita Parrado and two soldiers also died.
Iraq particularly dangerous for reporters
A total of 300 media workers have been killed in Iraq since 2003. Iraq is the most dangerous country for journalists in the last 20 years, ahead of Syria with 280 fatalities. This is followed by Afghanistan, Yemen, the Palestinian Territories and Somalia.
According to the RSF, more media workers have been killed in officially peaceful areas over the past two decades than in war coverage. Investigations into organized crime and corruption are particularly ‘extremely’ dangerous, for example in Mexico, Brazil or Colombia.
According to Reporters Without Borders, Russia remains the country with the most media workers killed in Europe. Since Vladimir Putin came to power, there have been increasing systematic attacks on press freedom, including at least 37 fatalities, such as the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya on October 7, 2006.
Source: Krone
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