Since 2005, a total of 787 journalists worldwide have been killed in connection with their work, according to the monitoring group, which is based in NY.
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Those who are left practicing journalism in these conflict-ravaged countries are often affiliated with groups party to the conflict, further complicating CPJ’s endeavors to determine the reasons behind their deaths.
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“Non-state actors ranging from Islamic militants to criminal gangs have become the most lethal threat to journalists worldwide, and account for the vast majority of killing that took place in the past year”, said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon.
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In 2015, a total of 110 journalists were killed around the world, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday, warning that more were being deliberately targeted for their work in supposedly peaceful countries.
But unlike in 2014, armed conflicts weren’t the main cause of death for journalists this year.
In those Middle Eastern countries, nine journalists were killed on the job.
Limited access to information in other war-torn countries – including Libya, Yemen, and Iraq – may have also lowered the recorded death toll worldwide. According to the CPJ, 2015 was the sixth year out of the last ten (and eighth since 1992) in which more than 60 journalists were killed in the line of duty-a figure that includes those targeted for their profession as well as those killed in combat, crossfire or while covering other assignments deemed risky.
France was ranked third among the deadliest countries for journalists because of one single act of violence – the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine.
The fatalities in 2015 were more widely distributed than the previous three years, the CPJ said.
Among others killed for their work this year was US-Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy. Mr Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was hacked to death with a machete as he walked with his wife from a book fair in Dhaka. “Several of these journalists can be found on CPJ’s “missing” list”. “A special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for the safety of journalists must be appointed without delay”.
The report also placed the spotlight on 54 journalists who were held hostage at the end of 2015, 26 of them in Syria, and 153 journalists who were in prison, 23 of them in China and 22 in Egypt.
At least 67 killed while reporting or due to their work; RSF condemns failure to protect journalists, calls for “response to match the emergency”.
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South Sudan, the world’s newest country, registered for the first time on CPJ’s database of killed journalists when unidentified gunmen ambushed an official convoy in Western Bahr al Ghazal state, resulting in the death of five journalists traveling with a county official. At least 28 of the 47 murder victims received threats before they were killed. The most common “beat” topics covered by victim journalists were politics, war, and human rights. Twenty-nine victims worked online. CPJ is still investigating the circumstances surrounding Jerf’s death, and so his case was not included in the year-end report published Tuesday.
