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One Third Of Jailed Journalists Are Bloggers
Increasing authoritarian trends as governments target Internet for regulation, censorship, control

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, December 7, 2006

A new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists warns of increasing authoritarian attitudes towards the free flow of information on the Internet as statistics reveal that of the estimated 134 journalists jailed for their work worldwide, a full third are Internet writers and bloggers.



Reuters reports ...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/071206jailedjournalists.htm

Jailed Media Worldwide Hits Record: U.S. Watchdog
Thu Dec 7, 2006 2:40 PM ET
By Michelle Nichols

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of journalists jailed worldwide for their work rose for the second year with Internet bloggers and online reporters now one third of those incarcerated, a U.S.-based media watchdog said on Thursday.

A Committee to Protect Journalists census found that a record 134 journalists were in jail on December 1 -- an increase of nine from the 2005 tally -- in 24 countries with China, Cuba, Eritrea and Ethiopia the top four nations to imprison media.

While print reporters, editors and photographers again made up the largest number of jailed journalists -- with 67 cases -- there were 49 imprisoned Internet journalists, making them the second biggest category, the New York-based committee said.

"We're at a crucial juncture in the fight for press freedom because authoritarian states have made the Internet a major front in their effort to control information," Committee Executive Director Joel Simon said in a statement.

"China is challenging the notion that the Internet is impossible to control or censor, and if it succeeds there will be far-ranging implications, not only for the medium but for press freedom all over the world."

Among those jailed in China were Zheng Yichun, a Chinese freelance contributor to overseas online news sites who wrote a series of editorials criticizing the Communist Party.

The census also found there were eight television journalists, eight radio reporters and two film/documentary makers in jail.

Other countries where journalists were imprisoned were Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Iran, Maldives, Mexico, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said 84 journalists were jailed for "anti-state" allegations like subversion and divulging state secrets, with many of those imprisoned in China, Cuba and Ethiopia.

The census also showed 20 imprisoned journalists were held without any charge or trial and that Eritrea accounted for more than half those cases.

The committee said the United States imprisoned two journalists without charge or trial -- Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, now held for eight months in Iraq, and Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj, jailed for five years and now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Joshua Wolf, a freelance blogger who refused to turn over video of a 2005 protest to a U.S. federal grand jury, was also in jail.

For the eighth year in a row, China led the way in jailing journalists with a total of 31 imprisoned on December 1, the census found, followed by Cuba with 24 reporters behind bars, Eritrea with 23 in jail and Ethiopia with 18 journalists jailed.

[thepeel]

Why, in an article that is mainly about China, did you put a picture of an American solider? Maybe because taking such a picture in China would land the photographer in jail, and as such one doesn't exist?

Why must anti-Americanism cloud ever serious topic? If the problem area is China, Cuba and other totalitarian human sinkpits, then why not focus on them?

[Pligganease]

I guess it never occurred to anyone that reputable journalists with scruples and legitimate methods for obtaining information would probably have a real job instead of being a blogger.

Blogging is what someone does when they don't have a real job or when they have enough money to not need a real job.

It's a hobby. Also, having a blog does not make someone a journalist. I could have a blog. I could use that blog to describe the best ways to make a bomb, and the best ways to destroy the CN Tower.

I would probably get arrested. Is that OK. Yes. Does having that blog make me a journalist? No.

[cbclark4]

"BEIJING (AP) - China, which jails more journalists than any other nation, is challenging the view that information on the Internet is impossible to control, and the implications for press freedom could be far-reaching, a New York-based rights group said.

At least 31 journalists are behind bars in China, making it the world's leading jailer of reporters for the eighth year in a row, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in its annual survey released Thursday."

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061208/D8LSNAE80.html


cbc

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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200612/200612120005.html