Stepfather of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes, Francis Godard (R), talks with Director of Advocacy and Assistance at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Antoine Bernard (L) during an unveiling ceremony of a banner demanding the journalist's release, at the Mairie de Paris Centre (Paris Centre Town Hall) in central Paris, on December 17, 2025. The mother of jailed French sport journalist Christophe Gleizes wrote a letter to Algeria's President requesting he pardon her son from his seven-year sentence on terror-related charges. Gleizes was arrested in May 2024 while travelling to northeastern Algeria's Kabylia region to write about the country's most decorated football club, Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie. (Photo by Charlotte SIEMON / AFP)

(AFP) – Un total di 128 reportero a ser asesina den 2025, cu mas di mita di nan den Medio Oriente, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) a bisa diahuebs.

E cantidad aki, un aumento compara cu aña 2024, “no ta djis un estadistica, e ta un alerta cora global pa nos coleganan,” IFJ su secretario general Anthony Bellanger a conta AFP.

E grupo di prensa a expresa alarme particular a causa di e situacion den e teritorionan Palestino, unda el a mira 56 profesional di media asesina den 2025 mientras Israel su guera cu Hamas tabata cana na Gaza. “Nunca nos a mira nada manera esaki: asina hopi morto den asina tiki tempo, den un area asina chikito,” Bellanger a bisa. Reporteronan tambe a keda asesina na Yemen, Ucrania, Sudan, Peru, India y otro paisnan.

Bellanger a condena loke e ta yama “impunidad” pa esnan tras di e atakenan aki. “Sin husticia, e ta permiti e asesinonan di reporteronan sigui padilanti,” el a adverti.

Mientrastanto, IFJ a bisa cu den henter mundo, 533 reportero ta den prison – un cifra cu a mas di dobla den ultimo mita decada.

China un biaha mas ta den posicion top riba e lista como esun cu mas ta encarcela reportero cu 143 deteni, incluyendo na Hong Kong, unda autoridadnan a ricibi critica di nacionnan Occidental pa impone leynan di seguridad nacional cu ta silencia oposicion.

IFJ su cifranan pa e cantidad di reportero asesina ta tipicamente hopi mas halto cu esun di Reporters Without Borders, a causa di diferente metodo usa. E aña aki su cifra di IFJ tambe a inclui 9 morto accidental.

Reporters Without Borders a bisa cu 67 reportero a keda asesina den e curso di nan trabao e aña aki, mientras cu UNESCO ta pone e cifra na 93.