This past year saw an increase in the number of journalists killed, imprisoned or forced to flee their countries due to reporting unpopular stories.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has provided an interactive map accompanying the list of worst nations based on “Impunity” — the combination of the number of journalists killed with the number of perpetrators of murder not prosecuted.
Go to link; below is a screen grab only.
CPJ
The dirty dozen, ranked from worst to least bad:
- Iraq
- Somalia
- Philippines
- Sri Lanka
- Colombia
- Nepal
- Afghanistan
- Mexico
- Russia
- Pakistan
- Brazil
- India