Afghanistan worst country for journalists — watchdoghome/News/World/Afghanistan worst country for journalists — watchdogWASHINGTON: Journalists faced growing dangers of being targeted for killing for their work in 2018 even as the risks from war and conflict declined, a media watchdog said Wednesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists said 34 of the 53 journalists killed on duty this year around the world were “singled out for murder.”The total is up from 47 killed in 2017, of which 18 were “pinpointed for murder,” CPJ said. “Afghanistan, where extremists have stepped up deliberate attacks on journalists, was the deadliest country and accounted for much of the increase,” the report said. AFP’s chief photographer in Afghanistan, Shah Marai, was among 25 people killed along with eight other journalists, in an April bomb attack. The CPJ report said that while the total number of journalists killed on duty hit its highest level in three years, the number killed in conflict fell to its lowest since 2011.

Source: Manila Times December 20, 2018 03:33 UTC