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# Number of journalists behind bars reaches global high
- URL: https://werd.io/number-of-journalists-behind-bars-reaches-global-high/
- Published: 2021-12-09T21:13:16.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-09T21:13:16.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"It’s been an especially bleak year for defenders of press freedom. 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; 18 others died in circumstances too murky to determine whether they were specific targets. China remains the world’s worst jailer of journalists for the third year in a row, with 50 behind bars. Myanmar soared to the second slot after the media crackdown that followed its February 1 military coup. Egypt, Vietnam, and Belarus, respectively, rounded out the top five."

\[[Link](https://cpj.org/reports/2021/12/number-of-journalists-behind-bars-reaches-global-high/)\]