29 journalists killed
Twenty nine journalists have been killed in 2012, reports Journalists without Borders law-defense organization, underlining that these are the journalists who were killed while performing their duties and not for other motives.
This year six journalists were killed in Somali, making it the site for the highest number of murders of journalists. Somali is followed by Mexico (5), Syria (4), Brazil (2), Bangladesh (2) and India (2). One journalist in Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand has paid the price for fulfilling professional duties in those countries.
This year another 27 were killed for being active on social networks and reporting what they had seen. Out of the activists, 26 were killed in Syria and 1 was killed in Bahre.
There are 162 journalists in jail this year. The highest number of jailed journalists are in Eritrea (31 journalists), followed by China (30), Iran (30), Syria (13), Uzbekistan (10), Ethiopia (7), Turkey (6), Azerbaijan (5), Vietnam (5) and Birma (4).
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