Photo: Mstyslay Chernov under Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Mstyslay Chernov under Wikimedia Commons

Is Southasia really becoming safer for journalists?

The discrepancy in reported journalist killings merits investigation
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Towards the end of 2013, Himal asked whether Southasia was becoming a safer place for journalists. The answer at the time was: "seems to be". This conclusion followed the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)'s statistics on the imprisonment and country-by-country killings of reporters for the year.

In the wake of the Taliban's 20 January attack this year on Afghanistan's TOLO TV network, killing eight of the network's employees, it seems time to revisit our earlier conclusion.

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