At least 13 journalists killed in Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion – Reporters Without Borders
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Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:21:01 +0200
An annual report by the Reporters Without Borders organisation on press freedom says that 54 journalists have been killed worldwide in 2024.
Source Reporters Without Borders DW, German international broadcaster and media outlet Quote Around the world, the number of journalists killed for covering conflict zones in Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine and the region affected by the war in Gaza has reached a fiveyear high 57.4.
Details The Gaza Strip has been named the most dangerous region, where nearly 30 of the 54 journalists were killed while conducting their duties.
Over 145 media workers were killed in total after the 7 October 2023 attack by the radical Islamist group Hamas on Israel, including at least 35 whose deaths were directly linked to their journalistic activities.
According to Reporters Without Borders, at least 13 journalists have been killed in Ukraine since the beginning of Russias fullscale invasion in February 2022.
Almost half of all imprisoned journalists worldwide are in the prisons of just four countries China, including Hong Kong 124, Myanmar 61, Israel 41 and Belarus 40.
Eight journalists were arrested in 2024 in Russia.
Israel has been systematically reporting detentions since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip in 2023 17 reporters were detained last year.
Media workers are killed, imprisoned and kidnapped, and too often these brutal crimes go unpunished.
We must protect those who inform us.
Their courageous work reveals the suffering of people from wars, corruption and abuse of power, Anja Osterhaus, a member of the board of the German branch of Reporters Without Borders, emphasised.
Background Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that the Russians had killed 50 priests and destroyed about 700 churches in Ukraine since the start of the fullscale invasion.
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