2 hours agoRecord detention figures in 2020
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide because of their work has reached record figures in 2020, until governments tried to print mutual media coverage of Ovid-19 or tried to print reporting on political unrest. Authors were again covered by anti-spy rhetoric coming from the United States. A large number [...]
A large number of journalists were put in prison globally for their work in 2020 until authoritarian nations arrested many of them for the way Codavi-19 used to cover it, managing the state of pandemic, but also for political instability.
Amid the pandemic, governments postponed court hearings, limited the number of visits, and ignored increased health risks in prisons; at least two journalists died after being infected with diseases while in custody.
According to the Global Reporters' Protection Committee, it found that at least 274 journalists were in prison until December 1st because of the journalistic work they had done, having passed the record 272 as they had been in 2016, Periscope follows.
China was again the biggest prisoner of journalists for the second consecutive year, followed by Turkey. Then came countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, and Ethiopia.
This report has also denounced Donald Trump's anti-spitical rhetoric that has braved authoritarian regimes to carry out terrible actions against the media. /Periscope
