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#protection of journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released a report on Wednesday listing world's top jailors of journalists. CPJ's annual prison census found that 262 journalists have been imprisoned worldwide which makes the year 2017 the worst year on record since CPJ started its census in the early 1990s. After Turkey and China comes Egypt as the worst country for journalists with 20 journalists currently behind bars. "Among them is photographer Mahmoud Abou Zeid, known as Shawkan, who was arrested…