Committee to Protect Journalist reports region accounted for almost half of the 67 deaths worldwide
Phillips was murdered last June while documenting Indigenous efforts to protect the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest for a book he was writing. His alleged killers have yet to be brought to trial, although on Monday“It’s an incredible number of people … the highest we have ever recorded in the region,” said the CPJ’s New York-based programme director, Carlos Martínez de la Serna.
The CPJ report said the rising number of killings in Latin America and the Caribbean reflected “the outsize risk journalists in the region face while covering topics such as crime, corruption, gang violence, and the environment”.“Covering these beats is becoming extremely dangerous,” said Martínez de la Serna, who blamed the chronic lack of justice for the deteriorating situation.
“The cost of attacking or killing a journalist is extremely low. Most of the cases are never solved. There is never justice – and those responsible … are not held [to account],” he added. The CPJ said at least 15 journalists had been killed in Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in February 2022. Almost as many journalists were killed in Mexico, a country officially at peace, where the advocacy group documented a record 13 killings.
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