From Reuters:
At least 81 journalists were killed in 2006, the highest annual toll in more than a decade, with Iraq again the deadliest place for journalists, the media watchdog organization Reporters Without Borders announced Sunday.
In its annual report, the group said 32 media assistants were also killed in 2006, at least 871 reporters were arrested and at least 1,472 attacks or threats against the news media were registered around the world.
…Reporters Without Borders said the number of registered cases of censorship fell to 912 this year from 1,006 in 2005. But it said the Internet remained tightly controlled in many countries, with 13 states branded as “enemies of the Web”: Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. [Full Text]
Read CDT’s earlier post: “Group: Journalists Jailed More in China,” which says,”China, which jails more journalists than any other nation, is challenging the view that information on the Internet is impossible to control, and the implications for press freedom could be far-reaching, a New York-based rights group said. ”
