PEC reports 105 journalists murdered in 2010
The Swiss NGO Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) announced on Monday the death of 105 journalists in 33 countries during 2010.
According to the PEC report, some 529 journalists were killed over a period of 5 years, 2 per week on average.
However, 2010 was better than 2009 which witnessed the killing of 122 journalists, and this high tally resulted from the unprecedented massacre of journalists in the Philippines. But the 2010 figure of 105 journalists killed is still higher than that of 2008, which stood at 91.
PEC Secretary-General Blaise Lempen noted that “the killing of journalists has become an epidemic with no cure.
“The International Community has not found solutions to it, or put in place effective mechanisms for bringing the perpetrators of those crimes against journalists to trial,” said Lempen.