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RSF’s 2024 Round-up: journalism suffers exorbitant human cost due to conflicts and repressive regimes [1]

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Date: 2024-12

Définitions

Killed journalist

RSF logs a journalist’s death in its press freedom barometer when they are killed on the job or in connection with their status as a journalist.

Journalist behind bars

RSF distinguishes between three categories for journalists thrown behind bars due to their work:

• Provisional detention: any deprivation of freedom for more than 48 hours of a person who has not yet been tried.

• Imprisonment: deprivation of a journalist’s freedom after a conviction.

• House arrest: obliging a journalist to remain in a designated location — often in their home — determined by the authority ordering it, possibly under electronic surveillance, and/or with a requirement to report regularly to the police and/or to remain in the designated place at specific times. It can be imposed as an alternative to imprisonment for those convicted, or as a surveillance measure for those being prosecuted.

Journalist held hostage

RSF considers that a journalist is a hostage from the moment they are deprived of their freedom by a non-state actor who combines this deprivation of liberty with threats to kill or injure the journalist, or who continues to detain them with the aim of coercing a third party to perform or refrain from performing an act as an explicit or implicit condition for the hostage’s release, safety or well-being.

Missing journalist

RSF classifies journalists as missing when there is not enough evidence to determine if they were victims of a homicide or abduction and no credible claim of responsibility has been made.

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[1] Url: https://rsf.org/en/rsf-s-2024-round-journalism-suffers-exorbitant-human-cost-due-conflicts-and-repressive-regimes

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