This year more journalists were killed

In 2018, 94 journalists and people with whom they worked together were killed by violence.

Most of the deaths were in Afghanistan. There, 16 journalists and other media employees died. Mexico follows with 11 victims. Four journalists have been killed in Europe. That was in France, Bulgaria, Turkey and Slovakia.

The low point this year was the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He was murdered in October at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.