220 journalists are now in prison across the world
This article is about how journalists jobs may be becoming in danger in countries like China and Iran. These two countries have jailed 220 journalists.
- This year, Iranian authorities were holding 30 journalists in jail, down from 35 in 2013.
- Together, China and Iran are holding a third of journalists jailed globally. The 44 journalists in Chinese jails, up from 32 the previous year, reflects the pressure that the country’s president, Xi Jinping, has exerted on media, lawyers, dissidents and academics to toe the government line. Twenty-nine of the journalists behind bars in China were held on anti-state charges.
- A state crackdown in Ethiopia on independent publications and bloggers more than doubled the number of journalists imprisoned there to 17 from seven the previous year, prompting several journalists to flee into exile
The article proves the different views of countries compared to the UK and what they think about journalists, therefore this could become a dying job.
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