HARD NUMBERS.

This section presents statistics related to journalism as of March 2006. They include 807, the minimum number of journalists who were arrested worldwide in 2005. 100, the decrease from the year before. 59, percentage of the 150 journalists who died on assignment last year who were murdered. 8, 5, 4, months, respectively, that three Iraqi journalists working for Reuters were held in Abu Ghraib without charges before being released this winter. 39, minimum number of journalists who have been abducted in Iraq since 2004.