India Among World's 10 Most Dangerous Countries For Journalists

3. Philippines:
Philippines is the third deadliest place with no justice for journalists, following conflict-torn country Iraq. Since over two decades, 73 journalists have been killed while covering the country’s corruption, crime, and political beats. Most of the victims are taken into captive and tortured. 69 percent of executors are suspected to be government officials, and 90 percent of them operate with complete impunity. Of the 14 journalists killed in this country in 2013, four were officially listed to have lost their lives while working at a radio station in Tacloban City in central Philippines when super typhoon Haiyan hit the area on November, 2013.

2. Iraq:
Iraq, a country in Western Asia, is the second deadliest nation for journalists. In this country, journalists are often targeted for working at organizations affiliated to the Iraqi government or sponsored by the U.S. Some journalists were also gunned down for their work revealing official corruption and local crime; for covering sensitive political issues; and simply because they were journalists. Till date, over 150 journalists have lost their lives while covering Iraq. The main causes of death are murder and combat crossfire. In 2013 alone, the death toll of journalists have come up to 16, of these 51 were killed in peacetime covering issues like crime and corruption, and 18 died in accidents.

1. Syria:
Syria has recorded one of the highest number of journalists killed, accounting to at least 17 field journalists, 44 citizen journalists and 4 media assistants in 2013. Syria is tagged as ‘cemetery for news providers’ by the report. The Syria armed opposition groups, who are highly intolerant to the criticism, also targeted journalists. These groups brand journalists as spies when they fail to match their views. This has also led to the increasing number of assaults and violence towards journalists. Most of the murdered journalists were Syrian citizens working in television and Internet media, and 15 percent were foreign correspondents.

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