Today, Saturday, 3 May,
2014, is a very important day for the entire world, most
notably for the world press, because today is World Press Freedom
Day,
or just World Press Day, sometimes known as Free Press Day. In case you Kevipedia followers do not know, World Press Freedom Day is an annual event for the world governments to allow journalists to have their right of press freedom both on and offline.
or just World Press Day, sometimes known as Free Press Day. In case you Kevipedia followers do not know, World Press Freedom Day is an annual event for the world governments to allow journalists to have their right of press freedom both on and offline.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists,
abbreviated as CPJ, their annual census, in which they have
being conducting since 1990, states that they have identified
that a total of 1,054 journalists have been
killed since 1992, which includes the 14
journalists killed in the year 2014, and 617 journalists
murdered with impunity since 1992.
The CPJ also states that the year 2012 was the worst year for journalists jailed for their work and the year 2011 coming in second, with the former year having 232 jailed journalists and the latter year having 211 jailed journalists. Both these numbers broke the 15 yearlong number of 185 journalists jailed in 1996. 106 of these jailed journalists, 79 of which working in print, are online journalists, which they make up half of the jailed journalists, whilst freelancers made up 37 percent of the journalists jailed in 2012.
The CPJ also states that the year 2012 was the worst year for journalists jailed for their work and the year 2011 coming in second, with the former year having 232 jailed journalists and the latter year having 211 jailed journalists. Both these numbers broke the 15 yearlong number of 185 journalists jailed in 1996. 106 of these jailed journalists, 79 of which working in print, are online journalists, which they make up half of the jailed journalists, whilst freelancers made up 37 percent of the journalists jailed in 2012.
CPJ also states that the country with the most journalists jailed is Turkey, followed closely by both Iran and China in second and third respectively, with Eritrea in fourth, Vietnam in fifth, Syria in sixth, Azerbaijan in seventh, Ethiopia in eighth, Egypt in ninth, and Uzbekistan in tenth. Both the former countries, Turkey and Iran, have both remained in the top two for two consecutive years. The three former countries, Turkey, Iran, and China, combined a total of 107 critical reporters, bloggers, and editors jailed, whilst 32 were imprisoned in China.
In 2011, 22 journalists were jailed in Eritrea, compared to the 28 in the following year. All these jailed journalists are Africa’s worst jailer of journalists and are also the world’s worst abuser of due process; to make matters worse for these jailed Eritrean journalists is that not 1 of these 28 have ever been publicly charged with a crime or brought before a court for trial.
Also in 2011, 4 journalists were jailed in Vietnam, compared to the 18 in the following year. All these jailed journalists are bloggers working for the country’s only independent press.
In addition to Vietnam, a high unnumbered of journalists in the countries of Ethiopia, Bahrain, and Somalia, have also been jailed.
Egypt are currently holding dozens of local and international journalists since July of 2013, compared to none in 2012; they are viewed by Egyptian Government as a critical threat to the country of Egypt and to their citizens for wrongfully accusing those held local and international jailed journalists for supporting the ousted President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, and the Muslim Brotherhood. In addition to Egypt and the United States of America, the CPJ listed Bangladesh, Jordan, Kuwait, Macedonia, Pakistan, the Republic of Congo, and Russia, on their 2013 annual census; these listed countries were unlisted in the previous year.
CPJ also states that there are 45 cases brought up against all the jailed journalists, with no charges being disclosed at all. Of all the 45 cases, there were 124 journalists jailed on anti-state charges, such as subversion or terrorism. The defamation, or insult charge, is far less than any other type of charge.
However, there is some slight good news. The some slight good news is the number of journalists jailed in both Turkey and Iran have declined in the previous year from 49 to 40, in the former country, and from 45 to 35, in the latter country. The same thing applies for Syria from 15 to 12 under the Government of Bashar al-Assad, but the CPJ census states that these numbers of the jailed journalists in Syria excludes the dozens of journalists that the armed opposition groups have abducted and are holding; their census also states that as of late 2013, 30 journalists have been missing in Syria.
The aforementioned freelance journalists jailed, in 2012, now make up roughly one-third of the jailed journalists, a slightly smaller proportion than in other recent years.
In the regions of the Americas, there has been a seldom
increase in jailed journalist, where one was documented in
Cuba, in 2012, and none in the previous
year.
A total of 39 imprisoned journalists worldwide have been
released in the past year, 2012, after the CPJ helped lead
their early release after sending out letters expressing its serious concerns to
those imprisoned journalists’ respective countries.
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