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The number of journalists arrested for practicing their profession in the world increased for the third year in a row to 251, most in Turkey, according to a report released Thursday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. (CPJ). Time magazine chooses journalists killed and imprisoned as "Personality of the Year" in 2018
The 251 prisoners are a record number since the CPJ follow-up noted that a world with hundreds of journalists in prison transformed into "new normality".
Turkey, with 68 journalists imprisoned, is at the top of the ranking, followed by China (47), Egypt (25) and Saudi Arabia (16).
Eritrea completes the top five on the list, also at age 16, but CPJ warned that it was unclear whether these journalists, mostly jailed since 2001, were still alive.
Other countries where journalists are in prison are Vietnam (11), Azerbaijan and Cameroon (7).
About 70% of jailed journalists around the world have been arrested for crimes against the state. In Turkey, for example, most are accused of having links with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), the country's Kurdish guerrillas.
The report also highlights the increase in the number of journalists arrested in connection with the publication of "false information", which rose from nine to twenty in two years. The majority of those arrested today are 19 years old in Egypt.
CPJ recalled that this increase occurred in parallel with the intensification of global rhetoric about "false information", which is the most representative of US President Donald Trump.
In addition, there is no information on allegations that weigh about 18% of prisoners.
With regard to the American continent, Venezuela with three prisoners and Brazil with a prisoner while in the United States, "where journalists face hostile rhetoric and physical violence" he There are no imprisoned professionals, but nine arrests throughout the year.
The report also reveals that in Europe, one Russian journalist was arrested in Ukraine and another in Ukraine, while in Ethiopia, no professional was arrested for the first time since 2004 and Uzbekistan for the first time in 20 years.
On the basis of these figures, CPJ concluded that "the authoritarian approach" to critical information coverage has become more important than a temporary increase, and that a world of hundreds of detained journalists is "the new normality".
