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Committee to Protect Journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists. Violence against the press in Mexico. Mexico by the numbers. 7 journalists have been slain in direct relation to their work since 2000. 16 other journalists have been murdered in unclear circumstances since 2000.

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Committee to Protect Journalists

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  1. Committee to Protect Journalists Violence against the press in Mexico

  2. Mexico by the numbers • 7 journalists have been slain in direct relation to their work since 2000. • 16 other journalists have been murdered in unclear circumstances since 2000. • 16th worldwide in number of journalists murdered.

  3. 14 percent of journalist murders have ended in convictions. • 19th worldwide in CPJ’ s Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of the population. The higher a nation’s ranking, the greater the threat to the press. • 7 journalists are reported missing. All have vanished since 2005. • 2nd worldwide in number of journalists reported missing since 1982. Only Russia –with seven cases in the 1990s and an eighth this decade- has reported more.

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