{"id":9543,"date":"2021-12-19T02:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T02:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fmetu.org\/?p=9543"},"modified":"2021-12-19T02:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T02:22:37","slug":"number-of-journalists-in-arbitrary-detention-surges-20-to-488-including-60-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fmetu.org\/?p=9543","title":{"rendered":"Number of journalists in arbitrary detention surges 20% to 488, including 60 women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Reporter Without Borders\u2019 (RSF) annual round-up published today, a record number of journalists \u2013 488, including 60 women \u2013 are currently detained worldwide, while another 65 are being held, hostage. Meanwhile, the number of journalists killed in 2021 \u2013 46 \u2013 is at its lowest in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The number of journalists detained in connection with their work has never been this high since RSF began publishing its annual round-up in 1995. RSF logged a total of 488 journalists and media workers in prison in mid-December 2021, or 20% more than at the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>This exceptional surge in arbitrary detention is due, above all, to three countries \u2013 Myanmar, where the military retook power in a coup on 1 February 2021, Belarus, which has seen a major crackdown since Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s disputed reelection in August 2020, and Xi Jinping\u2019s China, which is tightening its grip on Hong Kong, the special administrative region once seen as a regional model of respect for press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>RSF has also never previously registered so many female journalists in prison, with a total of 60 currently detained in connection with their work \u2013 a third (33%) more than at this time last year. China, the world\u2019s biggest jailer of journalists for the fifth year running, is also the biggest jailer of female journalists, with 19 currently detained. They include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/china-rsf-urges-release-covid-19-reporter-who-faces-impending-death\">Zhang Zhan<\/a>, a 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/chinese-journalist-palestinian-journalist-and-pegasus-project-receive-2021-rsf-press-freedom-awards\">RSF Press Freedom laureate<\/a>, who is now critically ill.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus is currently holding more female journalists (17) than males (15). They include two reporters for the Poland-based independent Belarusian TV channel <em>Belsat<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/two-year-jail-terms-signal-bid-crush-all-independent-journalism-belarus\">Daria Chultsova<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/two-year-jail-terms-signal-bid-crush-all-independent-journalism-belarus\">Katsiaryna Andreyeva<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who were sentenced to two years in a prison camp for providing live coverage of an unauthorised demonstration. Of the 53 journalists and media workers detained in Myanmar, nine are women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extremely high number of journalists in arbitrary detention is the work of three dictatorial regimes,\u201d RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. \u201cIt is a reflection of the reinforcement of dictatorial power worldwide, an accumulation of crises, and the lack of any scruples on the part of these regimes. It may also be the result of new geopolitical power relationships in which authoritarian regimes are not being subjected to enough pressure to curb their crackdowns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another striking feature of this year\u2019s round-up is the fall in the number of journalists killed in connection with their work \u2013 46 from 1 January to 1 December 2021.\u00a0 You have to go back to 2003 to find another year with fewer than 50 journalists killed. This year\u2019s fall is mostly due to a decline in the intensity of conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen and to campaigning by press freedom organisations, including RSF, for the implementation of international and national mechanisms aimed at protecting journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, despite this remarkable fall, an average of nearly one journalist a week is still being killed in connection with their work. And RSF has established that 65% of the journalists killed in 2021 were deliberately targeted and eliminated. Mexico and Afghanistan are again the two deadliest countries, with seven journalists killed in Mexico and six in Afghanistan. Yemen and India share third place, with four journalists killed in each country.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these figures, the 2021 round-up also mentions some of the year\u2019s most striking cases. This year\u2019s longest prison sentence, 15 years, was handed down to both \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/yemeni-journalist-saudi-arabia-gets-15-years-apostasy\">Ali Aboluhom<\/a>\u00a0in Saudi Arabia and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/vietnam-three-ijavn-journalists-given-total-37-years-prison\">Pham Chi Dung<\/a>\u00a0in Vietnam. The longest and most Kafkaesque trials are being inflicted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/case-against-amadou-vamoulke-baseless-french-lawyers-tell-cameroon-court\">Amadou Vamoulk\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0in Cameroon and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/journalists-trial-again-delayed-rsf-calls-charges-be-dropped\">Ali Anouzla<\/a>\u00a0in Morocco. The oldest detained journalists are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/hong-kong-apple-daily-founder-jimmy-lai-accused-under-national-security-law-one-year-faces-life\">Jimmy Lai<\/a>\u00a0in Hong Kong and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/cruel-inhuman-and-degrading-treatment-journalists-imprisoned-iran\">Kayvan Samimi Behbahani<\/a>\u00a0in Iran, who are 74 and 73 years old. The French journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/french-cities-campaign-support-reporter-held-hostage-mali\">Olivier Dubois<\/a>\u00a0was the only foreign journalist to be abducted this year. He has been held hostage in Mali since 8 April.<\/p>\n<p><em>Since 1995, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been compiling annual round-ups of violence and abuses against journalists based on precise data gathered from 1 January to 1 December of the year in question. The 2021 round-up figures include professional journalists, non-professional journalists, and media workers. We gather detailed information that allows us to affirm with certainty or a great deal of confidence that the detention, abduction, disappearance, or death of each journalist was a direct result of their journalistic work. Our methodology may explain the differences between our figures and those of other organisations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Reporter Without Borders\u2019 (RSF) annual round-up published today, a record number of journalists \u2013 488, including 60 women \u2013 are currently detained worldwide, while another 65 are being held, hostage. Meanwhile, the number of journalists killed in 2021 \u2013 46 \u2013 is at its lowest in 20 years. 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