The number of journalists killed in retaliation for their work more than doubled this year.

Mexico City, December 24 (RHC)-- The number of journalists killed in retaliation for their work more than doubled this year, with Mexico being the most dangerous country for journalists in 2020, followed by Afghanistan and the Philippines.  

According to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 30 journalists have been killed around the world this year.

In related news, in Mexico, the former mayor of a small town in the state of Chihuahua has been arrested for complicity in the 2017 murder of La Jornada journalist Miroslava Breach.  Hugo Amed Shultz is accused of providing information about Breach, who covered the drug war, to an organized crime group suspected of her murder.