Musa Khankhel

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Reports | Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Iraq, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka

Getting Away With Murder

CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index spotlights countries
where journalists are slain and killers go free



New York, April 20, 2010—Deadly, unpunished violence against the press has soared in the Philippines and Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index, a list of countries where journalists are killed regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes. Impunity in journalist murders also rose significantly in Russia and Mexico, two countries with long records of entrenched, anti-press violence.

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April 20, 2010 12:01 AM ET |
Tags: Atwar Bahjat, Impunity, Impunity Index 2010, Killed, Knight Foundation, Lasantha Wickramatunga, Maguindanao, Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe, Musa Khankhel, Natalya Estemirova
Reports | Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Colombia, El Salvador, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Venezuela

Philippines, Somalia fuel record death toll

CPJ survey finds at least 68 journalists killed in 2009

Family members of journalists killed in the Maguindanao massacre. (Reuters)

New York, December 17, 2009—At least 68 journalists worldwide were killed for their work in 2009, the highest yearly tally ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the organization said in its year-end analysis. The record toll was driven in large part by the election-related slaughter of more than 30 media workers in the Philippine province of Maguindanao, the deadliest event for the press in CPJ history.

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December 17, 2009 12:01 AM ET |
Tags: Abdulmalik Akhmedilov, Evin Prison, Impunity, Killed, Knight Foundation, Lasantha Wickramatunga, Maguindanao, Musa Khankhel, Novruzali Mamedov, Omidreza Mirsayafi, Said Tahlil

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