{"id":147182,"date":"2011-12-08T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=147182"},"modified":"2011-12-08T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T10:15:37","slug":"iran-worlds-worst-jailer-of-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/08\/iran-worlds-worst-jailer-of-journalists.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran World&#8217;s Worst Jailer of Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide shot up more than 20 percent to its highest level since the mid-1990s, an increase driven largely by widespread jailings across the Middle East and North Africa, the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/reports\/2011\/12\/journalist-imprisonments-jump-worldwide-and-iran-i.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Committee to Protect Journalists<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> has found. In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, CPJ identified 179 writers, editors, and photojournalists behind bars on Dec. 1, an increase of 34 over its 2010 tally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/mideast\/iran\/\">Iran<\/a> was the world\u2019s worst jailer, with 42 journalists behind bars, as authorities kept up a campaign of anti-press intimidation that began after the country\u2019s disputed presidential election more than two years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/africa\/eritrea\/\">Eritrea<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/asia\/china\/\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/asia\/burma\/\">Burma<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/asia\/vietnam\/\">Vietnam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/mideast\/syria\/\">Syria<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/mideast\/turkey\/\">Turkey<\/a> also ranked among the world\u2019s worst.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, 86 journalists whose work appeared primarily online were in jail on Dec. 1, constituting nearly half of the census. The proportion is consistent with those seen in CPJ\u2019s previous two surveys, which had followed several years of significant increases in the numbers of imprisoned online journalists. Print journalists constituted the second largest professional group, with 51 jailed worldwide. The other detainees were from radio, television, and documentary filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>CPJ believes that journalists should not be imprisoned for doing their jobs. The organization has sent letters expressing its serious concerns to each country that has imprisoned a journalist.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide shot up more than 20 percent to its highest level since the mid-1990s, an&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11240,35586,10297,28984,11397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}