Turkey remains the biggest jailer of
journalists for the second year in a row, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said Wednesday in reporting that the number of journalists
jailed around the world hit a record high in 2017.
The organization, a nonprofit, nonpartisan activist group based in New York, said it had confirmed that 262 people were in government custody
for reasons directly related to their work as journalists as of Dec. 1.
That's three more that the previous record, set last year.
The author of the report, Elana Beiser,
editorial director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, said
the trend "reflects a dismal failure by the international community to
address a global crisis in freedom of the press."
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Source: NBC News
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