The Most Dangerous Country For Journalists

 The Most Dangerous Country For Journalists

A new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has revealed that the most dangerous country for journalists is not some remote war-torn region, but rather it's an America. The US was ranked fifth on the list of 10 nations that pose the greatest danger to journalists.

The survey, which examined violence against reporters, was conducted by CPJ between May and August 2018. It looked at attacks on journalists in countries around the world and found that three quarters of them occurred in just five countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia.

The report also highlighted how many of these attacks were carried out by local authorities and security forces - not by armed groups or terrorists - because those are the only entities with access to weaponry which can inflict physical harm on journalists without being detected by security forces.

The Most Dangerous Country for Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists has just released its annual "List of the World's Most Repressive Media" and Iran is once again at the top.

Iran was No. 1 in 2017, too, and it remains one of the most repressive regimes in history. But the 2018 ranking is a bit different: It includes not just journalists imprisoned or killed but also those who have been threatened or intimidated.

That's because last year's list focused on actual imprisonment and violence against journalists; this year's list includes countries where journalists have been threatened, beaten or even killed because they reported stories that were critical of their governments' policies or activities.

Iran was No. 1 again this year because it continues to imprison reporters who report on sensitive subjects like prison conditions and human rights abuses — even though it no longer imprisons them solely for doing so.

The most dangerous country in the world for journalists is not Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan. It's Yemen, a country where journalists are not only targeted but killed.

That's according to a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which analyzed government killings and arrests of journalists between 2010 and 2016.

Yemen ranks No. 1 on CPJ's list — behind only Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan — with at least 13 journalists killed during this period. The country also has one of the worst records for impunity: no convictions of those responsible for journalist killings or other attacks on the media have been reported by CPJ since 2010.

CPJ says that Yemeni journalists now face an "unprecedented level" of danger for their work in a country where authorities have used military courts to try civilians accused of crimes against suspected al-Qaeda militants.

The report comes as Yemen's war enters its third year amid growing international concern about what seems like a never-ending conflict between Houthi rebels and pro-government forces backed by Saudi Arabia.

The journalist in the world who has been killed this year is not Syrian or Russian, but Colombian.

On Oct. 19, Edwin Cortés Mejía, a reporter for Global News who was covering the FARC guerrilla group, was shot dead by a paramilitary group in the northeastern department of Arauca. He was investigating illegal mining and oil extraction activities on indigenous territories when he was killed.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned his killing as a "brutal act of retaliation" and called it an "unprecedented attack against media freedom."

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