In recent years, CPJ has returned to using less precise language like “killings” to refer to murders whenever discussing them in the aggregate. It’s the kind of euphemism preferred by despots like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Does anyone doubt a link between the work of frontline environmentalists and global warming? Yet how many activists, let alone the public, are aware of the rising murder toll of local environmental activists?
“No matter what – unless you ‘know’ otherwise, your Satellite phone almost certainly discloses your exact GPS location in an insecure manner.”
More journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous, but not necessarily in ways that people might expect.
