Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial, on the website the place Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed within the West Bank metropolis of Jenin, May 19, 2022.

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Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial, on the website the place Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed within the West Bank metropolis of Jenin, May 19, 2022.

Majdi Mohammed/AP

Sixty-seven members of the press have been killed in 2022, the very best quantity since 2018, in accordance with the annual report from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

At least 41 journalists, or greater than 60%, have been killed in retaliation for his or her work. A motive for the opposite 26 are being investigated by the CPJ.

The whole of journalist deaths, which was nearly 50% greater than in 2021, was propelled by the protection of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in addition to violence in Latin America.

Over half of 2022’s killings occurred in simply three international locations–Ukraine (15), Mexico (13), and Haiti (7), the very best yearly numbers CPJ has ever recorded for these international locations because it started compiling information in 1992.

Researchers have recorded a complete of 151 journalist killings in Mexico since 1992. It has one of many highest totals on the planet, together with Russia, Syria, the Philippines, Iraq, Colombia, Brazil, Algeria and Somalia.

“In a country characterized by corruption and organized crime, it’s unclear how many were targeted directly because of their work … Members of the press in Mexico are confronting a crisis that is exceptional outside of war zones,” the CPJ has said.

In Haiti, current violence has been sparked by civil unrest and gang violence following the 2021 assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse. The nation has not elected a leader since.

Four journalists every have been killed in Colombia, Brazil and Chile.