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Record number of journalists jailed around the world



Reporters Without Borders said that more than 100 reporters and media professionals were behind bars as a result of the state backlash in Turkey ordered by President Erdogan following the failed coup
The crackdown after the failed coup in Turkey in the summer helped push the number of journalists detained by governments around the world to a 26-year high.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an American press freedom campaign group, estimated in a report published today that 259 journalists were detained by states — the highest number since the group began keeping detailed records in 1990.
In a separate report, also published today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that more than 100 reporters and media professionals were behind bars as a result of the state backlash in Turkey ordered by President Erdogan.
The international organisation’s annual report claimed there were 358 journalists in detention worldwide, up 6 per cent from last year. The RSF’s figures include bloggers and freelance contributors.
“The persecution of journalists around the world is growing at a shocking rate,” Christophe Deloire, the RSF secretary general, said following the publication of the report.
“At the gateway to Europe, an all-out witch hunt has jailed dozens of journalists and has turned Turkey into the world’s biggest prison for the media profession,” he added.
“In the space of a year the Erdogan regime has crushed all media pluralism while the European Union has said virtually nothing.”
Turkey was placed at number one in the world for the number of detained journalists; behind China, which was top the previous two years came Egypt, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
One of the reasons RSF’s estimates are higher than the CPJ is because they also count journalists held as hostages.
RSF said the number had fallen this year, with 52, mostly locals, held around the world compared with 61 last year. This year all the hostages are in Syria, Yemen and Iraq — with 21 held by the Islamic State group alone.
The number of women journalists imprisoned more than quadrupled over the last year, from five to 21, according to the RSF report.
“This reflects in part the growing role of women in journalism but above all the disastrous situation in Turkey, which currently accounts for a third of the world’s detained women journalists,” RSF said.

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