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Tough year for journos worldwide

Arrests in 2016 at 30-year high: CPJ

Agencies
More journalists have been jailed this year by governments around the world than at any time in nearly three decades, according to a media rights watchdog.
The report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonprofit group that works to defend press freedoms, says a total of 259 journalists have been jailed in 2016, compared with 199 at the same time last year.
That is the highest number since the group began keeping detailed records in 1990.
The numbers do not include journalists who have disappeared or are held captive by non-state groups.
After Turkey and China, Egypt, with 25 journalists incarcerated, is listed in third place by the report - the CPJ's annual census of imprisoned journalists. This year marked the first time since 2008 that Iran was not among the top five worst offenders. China had jailed the most journalists worldwide in the previous two years.
TURKEY IN FOCUS
The CPJ says that at least 81 journalists were imprisoned in Turkey as of December 1, all facing anti-state charges.
A state of emergency is still in force in Turkey following a July 15 coup attempt, with a resulting government action against alleged coup sympathisers landing thousands in jail and forcing tens of thousands of people from their jobs.
In a separate report released Tuesday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reported that 348 journalists are currently detained worldwide - six percent more than were detained at this time last year. The figure includes bloggers and freelance contributors.
The number of women journalists imprisoned more than quadrupled over the period (from five to 21).
“This reflects in part the growing role of women in journalism but above all the disastrous situation in Turkey,
which currently accounts for a third of the world's detained women journalists," RSF said.
"The persecution of journalists around the world is growing at a shocking rate," RSF secretary general Christophe Deloire said in a statement.
"At the gateway to Europe, an all-out witch-hunt has jailed dozens of journalists and has turned Turkey into the world's biggest prison for the media profession. In the space of a year, the Erdogan regime has crushed all media pluralism while the European Union has said virtually nothing."
Aside from Turkey, between them China, Iran and Egypt account for more than two-thirds of journalists imprisoned, RSF said, calling for the creation of a special representative for the safety of journalists directly attached to the office of the UN secretarygeneral.
The number of journalists held hostage has however fallen this year, with 52, mostly locals, held around the world compared with 61 last year, although RSF said the 2015 number was particularly high.