By Country / Iraq
Record Number Of Journalists Killed In 2006
October 05, 2006
Journalist Atwar Bahjat was killed in Iraq in February (AFP)
Twenty-six of the deaths occurred in Iraq.
WAN Director Timothy Balding said today that more than 500 journalists have been killed in the past decade, often for simply doing their jobs, yet few of the killers are ever brought to justice.
After Iraq comes the Philippines (eight deaths), and the South American nation Guyana (six deaths).