India Ranked 7th in List of Unsolved Journo Murders


New Delhi, Jun 12 (PTI) India has earned the dubious distinction of being listed in the 2011 'Impunity Index' prepared by an international media watchdog on the basis of unsolved murders of scribes - an issue that has again come to the fore after the killing of a senior reporter in Mumbai.

Only 13 countries -- with five or more unsolved cases of murder of journalists from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2010 -- have been included on the index.

India is at the 13th spot with seven such instances, or 0.006 unsolved journalist murders per one million inhabitants, according to the report of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Murders make up more than 70 per cent of work-related deaths among journalists across the world, according to CPJ.

The index calculated the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population.

  

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