Cpj reports 30-year high in the number of journalists jailed

Already under siege, since early 2016, media freedom in Turkey has seen an unprecedented increase in press freedom violations, according to the annual census of imprisoned journalists by the

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).  CPJ has reported a 30-year high with 259 imprisonments this year. After Turkey, the worst offender is China, which has jailed 38 journalists this

year. India and 14 other countries jailed one reporter each among the 32 countries listed. Turkey has jailed 81 journalists – the highest number of imprisonments this year, according to

CPJ’s 2016 prison census. The number of journalists jailed in Turkey form 31 per cent of the journalists in prison worldwide, according to the report.  While CPJ’s census recorded a 23 per

cent increase in the number of imprisonments across the globe, Turkey jailed 82 per cent more journalists in 2016. The website also states that there was an increase in the number of

journalists who were detained, arrested and harassed in Turkey after the failed coup to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan earlier this year.  CPJ  is a group that defends press freedom. It

started recording the number of journalists arrested worldwide in 2000 as part of its annual census, which is a snapshot of obstruction to media freedom across the globe.