In its newly released report, Committee to Protect Journalists says the number of imprisoned journalists is a record high.
In total 250 journalists remain behind bars according to a newly updated database. 6 of these journalists are from Azerbaijan.
Other findings from CPJ’s annual census include:
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Ninety-eight percent of journalists jailed worldwide are locals covering their own country. Three of the four journalists with foreign citizenship are imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, and the fourth in China.
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Twenty of the jailed journalists, or 8%, are female, compared with 13% last year.
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Politics was the beat most likely to land journalists in jail, followed by human rights and corruption.
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More than half of those imprisoned were reporters publishing online.