Amman - A report prepared by the Arab Archives Institute in Jordan found an estimated 72 Arab journalists killed between 2001 and 2006 for reasons directly related to their work. Twelve of the dead were women. This means that at least one journalist was killed every month in an Arab country in the last six years.
Iraq is clearly the most dangerous country in which to work, but North Africa has also claimed more than its share of victims.
The high number of Arab journalists killed in six years overshadowed their accomplishments and their legacies, according to the AAI report, which was carried out in cooperation with the IFEX network and UNESCO. The main motive behind the killing of these journalists was intimidation.
The report serves as a reminder to activists around the world of the highly dangerous circumstances in which Arab journalists are working, not only in Iraq, but also in other places where enemies of freedom find words too much to be tolerated.
Iraq is the country where journalists are most prone to being attacked, but journalists from other Arab countries are also harassed, tortured and killed for their beliefs and for expressing them.
Algeria: Abdel Hai Bilyardoh, Murad Belqasem (43), Hamid l'reibi Fadila Nejma, Adel Zerrouk
Jordan: Riham Farra (29), Tareq Ayyoub (34)
Sudan: Mohammad Taha (50)
Kuwait: Hidaya Salem (65)
Palestine: Mazen Da'na (38), Nazeeh Darwazeh (44), Khalil Ziben (59), Zakaria Ahmad (45), Imad Abu Zahra (28), Amjad Allami (20), Othman Qatnani, Issam Tillawi (30), Mohammad Bishawi (27)
Lebanon: Jubran Tweini (48), Samir Kassir (45), Layal Najeeb (23)
Libya: Deif Al Ghazal (29)
Iraq: Atwar Bahjat (30), Aqeel Muhammad Al Ban (58), Nabil Ibrahim Al Dulaimi (36), Luma Al Karkhi, Naqshin Hamma Rashid (30), Abdel Majid Isma'il Khalil, (67), Saed Mahdi Shlash, Raed Qays (28), Raeda Wazzan (40), Hussam Sarsam (36), Ahmed Jabbar Hashim (35), Fadhil Hazem Fadhil, Ali Ibrahim Issa, Saman Abdullah Izzedine, Saleh Ibrahim (30), Ahmed Adam, Najem Abed Khudair, Jerges Mahmood Mohamad Suleiman, Maha Ibrahim, Yasser Salihee (30), Ahmed Wael Bakri (30), Khaled Al Attar, Adnan al-Bayati, Rafed Said Al Anbagy (36), Hind Ismail (28), Fakher Haider (38), Firas Maadidi (40), Mohammed Haroon (47), Ahmed Hussein Al-Maliki, Aqeel Abdul Ridha, Muqdad Muhsin, Safir Nader, Haymin Mohamed Salih, Ayoub Mohamed, Gharib Mohamed Salih, Semko Karim Mohyideen, Abdel Sattar Abdel Karim, Nadia Nasrat, Ali Abdel Aziz, Burhan Mohamed Mazhour, Asaad Kadhim, Mahmoud Hamid Abbas (32), Mazen al-Tumeizi, Karam Hussein, Dina Mohammed Hassan, Dhia Najim, Tareq Ayyoub (34), Ahmed Shawkat.
