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This marks the fifth consecutive year that repressive governments have imprisoned at least 250 journalists .
16 Dec, 2020
At least 274 journalists are in jail worldwide as of December 1, 2020, in relation to their work, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, exceeding the previous high of 272 jailed in 2016. The report said this marks the fifth consecutive year that repressive governments have imprisoned at least 250 journalists .
China, Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are the worst jailers , the report noted. Forty-seven journalists are in jail in China, 37 in Turkey, 27 in Egypt, and 24 in Saudi Arabia.
Worldwide, 67 percent of the jailed journalists were imprisoned on anti-state charges such as terrorism or membership in banned groups. No charges were disclosed in 19 percent of the cases, the report said, and more than half of these cases are in Eritrea and Saudia Arabia. Twelve percent were imprisoned on charges of false news, and 12 percent on
Record Number Of Journalists Have Been Jailed This Year Globally
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A record 274 journalists were in jail at the beginning of the month because of their work, nearly three dozen of them on charges of “false news,” the Committee to Protect Journalists has said.
It has been five straight years where at least 250 journalists were in custody, which the committee says illustrates a crackdown by repressive governments. China is the top jailer, followed by Turkey and Egypt. Political unrest in Belarus and Ethiopia have led to big increases of reporters in custody there, the committee said on Tuesday.
Police arrested more than 117 journalists in the US in 2020
At least 117 journalists were arrested in the United States in 2020, setting a new record for arrests of journalists by a significant margin, according to a report released this week by the Freedom of the Press Foundation based on data compiled by the US Press Freedom Tracker. The number is expected to rise as more than a dozen cases are still under investigation.
From 2017 to 2019, 68 journalists were arrested: nine in 2019, 11 in 2018 and 48 in 2017. This year, in the week from May 29 to June 4 alone, more arrests of journalists were carried out than in these three years combined.
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