Committee to Protect Journalists

Rivaling 2009 figures of 74 journalists killed worldwide, the death toll of journalists in 2012 came in at a whopping 70.

It is a dangerous time for journalists, not so much from crossfire in warzones, but because journalists are hunted down and slaughtered for reporting the truth.

The CPJ annual prison census found that as of Dec. 1, there were 179 known writers, editors, and photojournalists behind bars worldwide.