In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists

Chi­na, Israel, and Myan­mar emerged as the world’s three worst offend­ers in anoth­er record-set­t­ing year for jour­nal­ists jailed because of their work, the Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists’ 2024 prison cen­sus has found. Belarus and Rus­sia round­ed out the top five, with CPJ doc­u­ment­ing its sec­ond-high­­est num­ber of jour­nal­ists behind bars – a glob­al total of … Con­tin­ue read­ing In record year, Chi­na, Israel, and Myan­mar are world’s lead­ing jail­ers of jour­nal­ists