Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday that the number of journalists killed because of their work rose to 76 this year from 60 in 2008.In its annual roundup, the Paris-based press freedom group said that at least 167 journalists remained in prison at the end of 2009.
“Wars and elections constituted the chief threat to journalists in 2009,” the group said.
It said two “appalling events marked 2009”, listing one as the killing of 30 journalists in a single day during an election-related massacre in the southern Philippines in November.
“The other was an unprecedented wave of arrests and convictions of journalists and bloggers in Iran following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed reelection,” it added.
Reporters Without Borders said that its main concern for 2009 was the mass exodus of journalists in countries such as Iran and Sri Lanka.
“The authorities in these countries have understood that by pushing journalists into exile, they can drastically reduce pluralism of ideas and the amount of criticism they attract,” it said.
Repression has increased on the Internet, as the number of countries affected by online censorship rose from 37 in 2008 to 60 in 2009.
“As soon as the Internet or new media (social networking, mobile phones, etc) start to play a leading role in the spread of news and information, a serious clampdown follows,” the press freedom group said.
Reporters Without Borders described the Internet as “the driving force for pro-democracy campaigns in Iran, China and elsewhere.”
“It is above all for this reason that authoritarian governments have shown themselves so determined to severely punish Internet users,” it said.
This year also saw in increase in the number of journalists kidnapped (33 compared with 29 in 2008) and physically attacked or threatened (1,456 compared with 929).
Source: Reporters Without Borders website
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