Two of these murders were in India.
22 Dec, 2020
At least 30 journalists were killed in 2020, of which 21 were "singled out for murder in retaliation for their work", according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The number of murdered journalists have doubled from last year's figure of 10.
The numbers were collated for the period from January 1 to December 15, 2020. The organisation said it's still investigating the deaths of 15 other journalists worldwide.
Two of the murders counted for 2020 were in India: journalist Rakesh Singh who died in Balrampur in November after his house was set on fire, and journalist Shubham Mani Tripathi who was shot and killed in Kanpur in June. The other murders took place in Mexico, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Honduras and Yemen, among others.