China has imprisoned the most—50 at latest count
, a New York-based advocacy group, confirms her fears: the number of journalists incarcerated is at a record high.A daily newsletter with the best of our journalismOn December 1st the CPJ counted 293 reporters in prison or otherwise detained. As in 2020, . Myanmar has surged up the ranking to second place. In May a Ryanair flight between Greece and Lithuania was diverted to Belarus in order for Roman Protasevich, a Belarusian journalist, to be detained by authorities there.
Seventy per cent of reporters serving sentences or in detention in 2021 were charged with anti-state crimes. But 16% have been incarcerated for spreading “false news”. Nearly one-seventh faced no charges at all. Autocratic regimes are becoming increasingly intolerant of the press and in a world distracted by covid-19, repressive governments are taking advantage. In many countries journalists have been prevented from accessing information and had critical reporting restricted.
Conflict has given some rulers a chance to crack down. Since the Burmese military toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in February, 26 journalists have been incarcerated; none were in 2020. In Ethiopia, as escalated, Abiy Ahmed, the embattled prime minister, imposed harsh emergency laws. The resulting arrests have left Ethiopia the second-worst jailer of journalists in Africa after Eritrea, the continent’s gulag state., which has appeared on CPJ’s census for the first time. Following mass protests against Belarus’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, his regime’s assault on press freedoms has intensified.
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