Black year for journalism in 2015: 115 reporters who lost their lives
In 2015 one of the years with most deaths in the world of journalism, pointed by Unesco today, which counted 115 murders around the world, especially in countries torn by war, such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya .
"The media and freedom of expression are under siege" by Unesco underlined in a report published on the occasion of the World Day to End Impunity for Crimes committed against journalists.
France, because of the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo (8 journalists killed) is in third place behind Syria (13 journalists killed) and Iraq (10 journalists).
Brazil, Mexico and South Sudan following 7 journalists killed each country. India, Libya and the Philippines count of six dead journalists each country.
Since 2006, the year in which the Unesco began to publish this report every two years, counted 827 murders of journalists in connection with their profession, namely a dead every five days on average. Only in 2012 were recorded most victims, 124 in number, compared to 2015.
The television becomes the medium laments most victims for the first time, with 35 deaths in 2014 then in 2015. Twenty-one journalists working for websites also killed in 2015, particularly in Syria.
The organization notes that, although the death of a foreign correspondent causing increased noise, journalists are killed at a rate of 95% in their own country.
Attacks against journalists remain unpunished general lines (92%) and less than a case 10 which killed a journalist is tried in national courts, the Unesco stresses.
In 2015 one of the years with most deaths in the world of journalism, pointed by Unesco today, which counted 115 murders around the world, especially in countries torn by war, such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya .
"The media and freedom of expression are under siege" by Unesco underlined in a report published on the occasion of the World Day to End Impunity for Crimes committed against journalists.
France, because of the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo (8 journalists killed) is in third place behind Syria (13 journalists killed) and Iraq (10 journalists).
Brazil, Mexico and South Sudan following 7 journalists killed each country. India, Libya and the Philippines count of six dead journalists each country.
Since 2006, the year in which the Unesco began to publish this report every two years, counted 827 murders of journalists in connection with their profession, namely a dead every five days on average. Only in 2012 were recorded most victims, 124 in number, compared to 2015.
The television becomes the medium laments most victims for the first time, with 35 deaths in 2014 then in 2015. Twenty-one journalists working for websites also killed in 2015, particularly in Syria.
The organization notes that, although the death of a foreign correspondent causing increased noise, journalists are killed at a rate of 95% in their own country.
Attacks against journalists remain unpunished general lines (92%) and less than a case 10 which killed a journalist is tried in national courts, the Unesco stresses.
