In Moscow, investigative reporter AnnaPolitkovskaya is shot execution-style in her apartment building. In Mogadishu, an assassinemerges from a crowd to kill award-winning photojournalist Martin Adler. And in Samarra,insurgents target television correspondent Atwar Bahjat as she reports from the scene of abombing. Attacks on the Press in 2006 recounts the stories of these and other journalistskilled in retaliation for their work. It documents hundreds of other threats and assaultsagainst the news media, and explores press freedom trends in every corner of the world. InPakistan and Afghanistan, front lines in the war on terrorism, reporting is suffering assecurity deteriorates. Leftist governments in several Latin American countries are imposingnew curbs on the press. In China, the biggest government crackdown since Tiananmen Square isstifling coverage of civil unrest. Dozens of journalists in Ethiopia and Eritrea areimprisoned on spurious charges. And in Iraq, the death toll among journalists is the highestin a generation. Compiled each year by the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independentnonprofit organization, Attacks on the Press is the most authoritative reference guide topress freedom worldwide, providing factual and unbiased analyses of media conditions in morethan 100 nations.