Overview
- Global watchdog FIP confirms 128 journalist deaths in 2025, with 56 in Palestine and 74 across the Middle East and Arab world.
- FIP condemns authorities’ failures to protect media workers and urges a United Nations convention to guarantee journalists’ safety and independence.
- RELE/CIDH reports at least 27 journalist killings in Latin America in 2025 and warns that securing justice commonly takes years or even decades.
- Peru’s ANP/OFIP documents 458 attacks on journalists and outlets in 2025, including four murders, with over 70% of aggressions attributed to state officials and security forces.
- FIP notes a slight rise from 2024 and a cumulative 3,173 journalist deaths since 1990, alongside 533 journalists imprisoned worldwide, with China and Israel among the highest counts.