Violence against journalist observes growth 

NP NEWS 24 ONLINE-  2018 has seen more journalists abused, killed and subjected to violence than any other year. At various part of the country, journalists were detained, held hostages, missing, and murdered and these journalists included media workers along with professional and non-professional journalists.

All they are guilty about writing the reality of the society and giving voice to people.

A New York-based organization, Committee to Protect Journalist conducted a survey where they found that 34 journalists died in retaliation killings in the year to 14 December, while at least 53 were killed overall. That compares with 18 retaliation killings among 47 deaths documented by the committee in 2017.

Other side, Reporter Without Border, Secretary-General Christophe Deloire said, “Violence against journalists has reached unprecedented levels this year, and the situation is now critical.”

According to RWF, A total of 80 journalists were killed, in which 63 were professional journalists, 13 non-professional and 4 media workers. 49 of these journalists, that constitutes up to 61%, were murdered or deliberately targeted, while the rest of them, i.e. 31 journalists (39%) were killed while they were on field reporting.

Where Afghanistan leads with 15 killed this year followed by Syria, 11, Mexico, 9, Yemen and India,6 and the US is considered to be the topmost deadliest countries in the world.

A total of 348 journalists were detained out of which, 179 are professional journalists, 150 non-professional journalists, and 19 media workers.

China following the strict restriction on media has detained around 60, Egypt,38, Turkey, 33, Iran and Saudi Arabia, 28 leads in the list of detaining journalists even after the court ordered them to be set free.

At present, 60 journalists are held hostage, out of which, 45 are professional journalists, 9 are non-professional journalists, 6 media workers.

47 killed in all of last year, of which 18 were pinpointed for murder. A total of 50 were killed in 2016.