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Others were detained, physically attacked, injured or killed while doing their jobs.
The grim details were released last week, and the CPJ census showed that at least 274 journalists were imprisoned globally as of Dec. 1 as governments clamped down on news coverage of civil unrest and the coronavirus pandemic.
All were working to find and deliver facts, to bring you the news from around the world.
“It’s shocking and appalling that we are seeing a record number of journalists imprisoned in the midst of a global pandemic,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “This wave of repression is a form of censorship that is disrupting the flow of information and fueling the infodemic. With COVID-19 raging through the world’s prisons, it’s also putting the lives of journalists at risk.”
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A record number of 274 journalists were jailed for their work across the globe, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found.
China, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia were the worst offenders.
CPJ found that, amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, authoritarian leaders tried to control the narrative by arresting journalists.
A record number of journalists were imprisoned because of their work in 2020, as governments clamped down on news coverage of civil unrest and the coronavirus pandemic, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found in its latest annual census.
At least 274 journalists were jailed as of 1 December, the CPJ said in a statement.