Wednesday 17 December 2014

More than 200 journalists in prison worldwide for third consecutive year

Supporters of the Hizmet movement of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen hold copies of the Zaman newspaper as they take part in a demonstration a day after Turkish police began an operation targeting media supportive of the movement.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/dec/17/over-200-journalists-in-prison-worldwide-for-third-consecutive-year

There are 32 more journalists in Chinese jails than there were in 2013, bringing the total to 44 imprisoned journalists. Almost half of those are of the Tibetan or Uighur ethnic minorities, including blogger Ilham Tohtiand seven people who worked on his website.
Iran has imprisoned the second most, with 30 journalists in jail - five less than last year. Among the jailed is Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian.
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