The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) said today that nearly 60 journalists have been murdered in recent months, and prosecutions of journalists are on the rise.
WAN said in a report issued on the eve of the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors' Forum in South Africa that journalists were killed both outside and inside conflict zones.
WAN said that press freedom is being suppressed in as diverse places as Belarus, Egypt, Zimbabwe, China or Vietnam.
The WAN report said death threats "continue to reach investigative reporters, whether they work in Haiti of Croatia."
Meanwhile, some 59 journalists have been killed since November 2006, 26 of them in Iraq.
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