In eight out of ten cases the murderers of journalists are not convicted for their crimes. Impunity sends the message that murdering journalists goes unpunished, further emboldening the killers and stimulating self-censorship among journalists.

%totalMurdered% journalists have been killed since %firstYear%. For doing their jobs. These are the latest seven – out of an ever-growing number. But none of them is just a number. They were people. They were journalists, and killed because of it. That is why we have built an online monument. To document. To remember. View it here.

Killing the truth is the world’s safest crime.

In eight out of ten cases the killers of journalists go free.

That is why we have launched our own investigations. To investigate, document and pursue justice.