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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Hall of shame: India is one of 12 countries where killers of journalists go free easily

Hall of shame: India is one of 12 countries where killers of journalists go free easily

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published Published on Oct 28, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 29, 2020

-Newslaundry.com

It ranks 12th on the CPJ’s Global Impunity Index 2020, one position worse than last year’s.

India is one of the dozen countries that fare the worst when it comes to prosecuting killers of journalists, according to the Global Impunity Index 2020 prepared by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The index “spotlights countries where journalists are singled out for murder and their killers go free”, the CPJ explained in its report titled Getting Away with Murder, released on Wednesday.

India is 12th on the index this year, its rank worsening from 13th last year and 14th in 2018. Somalia, Syria and Iraq – all countries ravaged by war – fill the top three positions. India’s neighbours, Pakistan and Bangladesh, rank 9th and 10th, respectively.

In 2019, the number of journalists killed in reprisal for their work was the lowest since the CPJ began recording them in 1992. This year, the number has already exceeded last year’s, though not substantially. Irrespective of the fall in the numbers of murders – which the CPJ suggests could be a result of self-censorship and the use of other methods of intimidation – the murderers have continued to enjoy impunity.

“Illustrating the entrenched nature of impunity, the 12 countries on the index account for 80% of the global total of unsolved murders of journalists for the 10-year index period,” the report pointed out. “All 12 have featured multiple times since CPJ first compiled the index in 2008, and seven have appeared every year.”

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Newslaundry.com, 28 October, 2020, https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/10/28/hall-of-shame-india-one-of-12-countries-where-killers-of-journalists-go-free-easily?fbclid=IwAR00OykfaxAkX-lY2w_rk7-USFvizWb_A6Pk0YAl8_t33p7TtbtdOyh4FPA


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