103 newsmen killed in 2011
Activists of France-based international NGO Reporters sans Frontieres demonstrate in front of the Egyptian embassy on February 4, 2011 in Paris, to protest against the attacks on journalists in Egypt. Mexico was the deadliest country for the media to work according to IPI, with 10 journalists killed there in the past year. PHOTO/ FILE
VIENNA, Thursday
A total 103 journalists were killed in 2011, with Mexico the most dangerous place to work for the media, Vienna-based press watchdog IPI said on Thursday.
This was the second highest toll on record after 2009, when 110 journalists were killed while covering a story.
“The numbers are getting worse,” the International Press Institute said in a statement, noting that 55 journalists were killed in 2001.
“In 2002, 19 countries appeared on the IPI Death Watch list. In 2011, there were 40 — more than in any year of the past decade.”
With 10 journalists killed there in the past year, Mexico was the deadliest country for the media to work, IPI said.
Iraq came second with nine deaths — mostly from bombings — followed by Honduras, Pakistan and Yemen, each with six deaths, and Libya and Brazil with five deaths.
(AFP)
