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Record number of journalists imprisoned in 2020 – report

Belarus journalist detained Aug 2020

Reuters A record number of journalists were imprisoned during 2020, as governments cracked down on coverage of the coronavirus pandemic or tried to suppress reporting of civil unrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. At least 274 journalists were in jail as of 1st December, the most since the New York-based group began […]

Call for global action as journalists are being jailed in record numbers

Journalists are being imprisoned in record numbers around the world with 262 jailed at the end of last year – the highest number ever recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In an event held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last Friday, Joel Simon, the CPJ’s executive director, said that […]