The Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 71 journalists were killed in 2009. That's the most deaths in the 30 years the group has been keeping track. Twenty-nine of those deaths came in a election-related ambush of reporters and others in the Philippines.
China had the most journalists incarcerated at 24 with Iran close behind with 23. Since then, the number of jailed journalists in Iran has jumped to 47.
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