A free and fair press has always been a target for tyrants and criminals. As a result, reporters, photographers, and bloggers can find themselves in harm�s way while informing us of world and local events. Sadly, this situation has not improved much with time: as of this writing, 960 journalists have been murdered in the last 10 years.
The following are the �10 Deadliest Countries for Journalists�, as ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). To humanize the grim statistics, each entry includes a passage describing a late journalist, randomly selected from victim rolls that are entirely too long.
NOTE: CPJ confirms a case only if it�s reasonably sure a journalist was murdered �in direct reprisal for his or her work, killed in combat/crossfire, or killed while carrying out a dangerous assignment.� Should you wish to contribute to its efforts, you may donate to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
10. Mexico
Total Murders since 1992: 28
Since 1992, 89% of Mexico�s killed journalists were murdered, mostly by drug cartels and criminal gangs operating with near-total impunity. As could be expected from the failing drug war in Mexico, the victims� beats typically focused on crime, with some overlap for covering government corruption.
One such victim was Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo, a 21 year old photographer working for La Prensa. He was kidnapped along with his cousin (Juan Gomez Melendez) and a popular TV show host (Jose Luis Cerds Melendez). All three were later found dead with gunshot wounds to the head, next to fresh graffiti warning �Stop cooperating with the Zetas�. The Zetas are a major drug cartel, and operate with such freedom in Mexico that an armed Zeta walked into the police�s active crime scene and moved the bodies to a different location.
Ruiz was still in college, and winner of a journalism award the previous year. He had been on the job eight months. 09 more countries after the break...
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