Wednesday April 25 2007 a. P. B. Vienna:
One hundred journalists killed in the year 2006, which was the worst in the history of the profession of journalism, according to the annual report of the International Press Institute, which was published Wednesday in Vienna. A director of the Institute Johann Fritz, said " 2006' was the most brutal and the most barbaric in the contemporary history of the media" talking about "a real war against the press."
Iraq continued to be for the fourth year in a row the most murderous country for journalists, with 46 killed "as in almost all cases (the killings was deliberate and targeted assassination", according to the report, which covered 180 countries. Journalists were also killed in 23 other countries Mexico (7) and Sri Lanka (5) and Pakistan (4), Afghanistan (3), Colombia (3), Venezuela (2), Russia (2), India (2), China (2).