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China remains the world's worst jailer of journalists for the third year in a row, with 50 behind bars.

As many as 293 media workers were put behind bars globally in 2021, said the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

As many as 293 media workers were put behind bars globally in 2021, said the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

As many as 293 media workers were put behind bars globally in 2021, said the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

2021 is shaping up as a terrible year for journalists but a great year for autocrats.

Sascha-Dominik (Dov) Bachmann’s profile on The Conversation

CPJ’s 2021 prison census found that the number of reporters jailed for their work hit a new global record of 293, up from a revised total of 280 in 2020. At least 24 journalists were killed because of their coverage so far this year; another 18 others died in murky circumstances.

Precipitating political events and a world preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a record high in the number of journalists behind bars across the globe according the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual census of journalists imprisoned or killed.

In October 2020, Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba Group, publicly criticised China’s regulatory system. A month later, Chinese regulators cancelled the Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) of Alibaba’s internet finance arm Ant Group which, at $37bn, would have been the world’s largest IPO.

CIVICUS report says 89 percent of the world’s population now live in “closed, repressed or obstructed” countries.