The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in its annual Global Impunity Index has put Afghanistan in the fifth row among 12 countries where journalists are singled out for murder and their killers go free, Tolo News reports on October 31. The CPJ in a report states that despite a reduction in violence against journalists in countries like Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and South Sudan, the cases of murders of journalists have not been investigated. “CPJ’s annual Global Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where journalists are singled out for murder and their killers go free, showed little change from a year earlier. Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and South Sudan occupy the worst four spots on the list, in that order, as war and political instability perpetuate the cycle of violence and lawlessness,” the report said. The Attorney General’s Office said that it has investigated 19 cases of violence and murder of journalists in Afghanistan over the past two years.