In Pictures

Journalism’s human cost

Journalists continue to bear the consequences of bringing information to the public in an increasingly dangerous field.

Journalist and human rights activist Rostislav Shaposhnikov was abducted and severely beaten by two unknown persons. Outside Kiev, the abductors pushed Shaposhnikov out of the vehicle and started kicking him. [Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA]

2 Nov 2015

In the last decade alone, approximately 700 journalists have been killed while reporting.

More recently, the world has seen the deliberate targeting of reporters within war and conflicts. Many journalists have been killed and tortured by violent groups, others have been silenced by governments and institutions.

On November 2, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, we remember those killed, those imprisoned and those who continue to risk all doing their job.

Ahmed Gomaa, a photographer working for the Associated Press, center, is seen in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, after enduring a beating by Egyptian police. [Mohammed Asad/AP]

An Israeli border policeman kicks a Palestinian photojournalist during clashes with Palestinian protesters near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]

Al Jazeera's Peter Greste, left, Mohamed Fahmy, centre, and Baher Mohamed, right, listen to a ruling at a court in Cairo June 23, 2014. [Asmaa Waguih/Reuters]

Journalist Ahmed Tajir, who was wounded by two masked-men in Mogadishu's Bakara market, is seen taken on a stretcher to Madina hospital on Sunday, June 7, 2009. [Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP].

British journalist Neil Bonner, right, speaks with his lawyer before his trial with Becky Prosser at Batam District Court, Indonesia Riau Islands, October 19, 2015. [Beawiharta/Reuters]

A news agency cameraman is restrained by Slovenian police at the Slovenia-Croatia border crossing in Rigonce, Slovenia, September 19, 2015. [Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters]

Injured news photographer Showkat Shafi talks to the members of Kashmir-based media during a protest in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir on August 25, 2011. [Fayaz Kabli/Reuters]

Australian journalist Peter Greste gestures upon his return home at Brisbane International Airport, early February 5, 2015. Peter Greste, an Al Jazeera journalist, was freed after more than a year in an Egyptian prison. [Nathan Richter/Reuters]