{"id":29018,"date":"2017-12-20T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29018"},"modified":"2017-12-20T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:18:30","slug":"turkey-has-the-most-jailed-journalists-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29018","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Has The Most Jailed Journalists Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey Has The Most Jailed Journalists Worldwide<\/a><\/h3>\n
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According to\u00a0the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)<\/a>, a record 262 journalists are being\u00a0held in prisons around the world<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes<\/a>, nearly three-quarters of them are being held on anti-state charges <\/strong>while at least 21 have been charged with “false news”.<\/p>\n

The worst three jailers are responsible for 51 percent of the total…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Infographic:<\/a><\/p>\n

You will find more statistics at Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Turkey is the top jailer of journalists for the second consecutive year with 73 languishing behind bars.<\/strong> The Turkish press experienced a crackdown in early 2016 and this gained pace after July’s failed coup attempt.<\/p>\n

The CPJ identified 41 jailed journalists in second-placed\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0while Egypt rounds off the top-three with 20.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Turkey Has The Most Jailed Journalists Worldwide According to\u00a0the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a record 262 journalists are being\u00a0held in prisons around the world. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, nearly three-quarters of them are being held on anti-state charges while at least 21 have been charged with “false news”. The worst three jailers are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,17596,17595,250,17594,2324,818,4318],"class_list":["post-29018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-china","tag-committee-to-protect-journalists","tag-cpj","tag-egypt","tag-incarceration","tag-journalists","tag-turkey","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29019,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29018\/revisions\/29019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}