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Violence on Journalists - RSF Report
December 23 , 2018
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- The report of annual worldwide round-up of deadly violence and abusive treatment of journalists was released by Reporters without Borders (RSF - Reporters Sans Frontières).
- According to the report, Journalists have never before been subjected to as much violence and abusive treatment as in 2018.
- The figure increased by eight percent to 80, and by 15 percent, in the category of number of professional journalists killed, from 55 in 2017 to 63 in 2018.
- The numbers had been declining for the previous 3 years.
- It added the U.S. to the worst offenders list for the first time in the annual roundup’s 23-year history.
- China remains to be the world’s biggest jailer of journalists with the number as high as 60. India was the 5th deadliest place for journalists.
- This report is being compiled every year since 1995.
- Earlier in April, RSF released the World Press Freedom Index 2018 in which India was ranked at 138.
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