A person lays flowers at the site where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova were shot in Moscow January 20, 2009. The writing on the paper on the wall reads: "Budanov and his FSB protegees are killers and belong in prison", referring to Russian Colonel Yuri Budanov, who was convicted of the murder of a Chechen woman, whose family Markelov represented. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
At least 11 journalists were killed in Mexico in 2009, making it the country’s deadliest year for reporters since IPI began its Death Watch records in 1997. Media workers brave enough to report on the rampant corruption and organised crime in Mexico’s most lawless regions were often the victims. Many were killed in gruesome fashion: For example, radio presenter Fabián Ramírez López was found dead in a vacant lot in Sinaloa state in October with his throat cut and the letters “YTTS” carved into ...
