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CHINA — SECOND ONLY TO TURKEY AS ONE OF THE WORLD"S MOST REPRESSIVE MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS FOR YEARS — HAS 47 JOURNALISTS IN PRISON, THE SAME NUMBER AS IT DID IN 2018, WHICH LARGELY RESULTED FROM REPORTERS ATTEMPTING TO DOCUMENT LARGE-SCALE PERSECUTION OF THE PREDOMINANTLY MUSLIM UIGHUR ETHNIC MINORITY IN XINJIANG.
“A CRACKDOWN IN XINJIANG PROVINCE - WHERE A MILLION MEMBERS OF MUSLIM ETHNIC GROUPS HAVE BEEN SENT TO INTERNMENT CAMPS - HAS LED TO THE ARRESTS OF DOZENS OF JOURNALISTS, INCLUDING SOME APPARENTLY JAILED FOR JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITY YEARS EARLIER,” THE REPORT SAID.
-- “CHINA, TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA, EGYPT ARE WORLD’S WORST JAILERS OF JOURNALISTS,” BY THE COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: “IN ITS ANNUAL GLOBAL SURVEY, THE COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS FOUND AT LEAST 250 JOURNALISTS IN JAIL IN RELATION TO THEIR WORK, COMPARED WITH AN ADJUSTED 255 A YEAR EARLIER. THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF JOURNALISTS IMPRISONED IN ANY YEAR SINCE CPJ BEGAN KEEPING TRACK IS 273 IN 2016. AFTER CHINA, TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA, AND EGYPT, THE WORST JAILERS ARE ERITREA, VIETNAM, AND IRAN.”
THE SEMINAR WAS NOT LIMITED TO THAT TOPIC, HOWEVER. I WAS JOINED BY TWO PANELISTS FROM PEN SWEDEN’S WRITERS-IN-PRISON COMMITTEE AND MALMO"S SANCTUARY PROGRAM FELLOW, A JOURNALIST FROM AFGHANISTAN. WITH THE RISE OF POPULIST AND ULTRA-NATIONALIST LEADERS ACROSS THE WORLD, OUR PANEL HIGHLIGHTED HOW JOURNALISTS ARE INCREASINGLY FACING DIFFICULTY IN CARRYING ON THEIR WORK. AS A RESULT OF THE NEW TREND, CENSORSHIP AND SELF-CENSORSHIP, THREATS AND VIOLENCE HAVE INCREASED, INCLUDING AMONG PREVIOUSLY “SAFER” COUNTRIES.
WHAT WE NEEDED WAS A NATIONAL CONVERSATION THAT WOULD PROMPT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE URGENCY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM. THE IDEA THAT WE HAD BECOME THE WORLD’S LARGEST JAILER — THAT THERE WERE MORE PEOPLE INCARCERATED OR ON PAROLE OR PROBATION IN THE U.S. THAN LIVE IN THE COUNTRIES OF LIBYA, LEBANON OR LAOS— WAS AT THE PERIPHERY OF AMERICAN CONSCIOUSNESS. AS A FORMER JOURNALIST, I WAS MINDFUL OF THE POWER OF HONEST STORYTELLING. AS AN IDEALIST, I FELT THAT IF ONLY AMERICANS KNEW THE TRUTH, CHANGES WOULD SOON FOLLOW.
"THIS OUTRAGEOUS MOVE, COMING JUST ONE WEEK AFTER HIS RELEASE, IS A DIRECT ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. THE ONGOING PERSECUTION OF ALTAN IS SYMPTOMATIC OF THE TARGETING OF FREE PRESS IN TURKEY, THE WORLD’S BIGGEST JAILER OF JOURNALISTS."
THIS WEEK, MEDIA TWITTER ERUPTED AFTER EDITORS AT THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT PAPER, APOLOGIZED FOR PUBLISHING PHOTOS OF CAMPUS PROTESTERS AND USING THE SCHOOL’S DIRECTORY TO CONTACT STUDENTS. PROMINENT JOURNALISTS ACCUSED THE PAPER’S STAFF OF INJURING THE CORE TENETS OF REPORTING, BUT A MORE NUANCED DEBATE HAS EMERGED FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE RUSH TO JUDGE. FOR THE TIMES, JULIE BOSMAN, MITCH SMITH, AND KATE TAYLOR HAVE A THOUGHTFUL WRITE-UP: STUDENT JOURNALISTS “FOUND THEMSELVES STRUGGLING TO MEET TWO DUELING GOALS: RESPONDING TO THE CHANGING EXPECTATIONS OF THE STUDENTS THEY COVER… WHILE UPHOLDING WIDELY ACCEPTED STANDARDS OF JOURNALISM.”
THE GILAS PILIPINAS PUT ON A SHOW IN FRONT OF ITS ADORING HOME FANS AS THEY THWARTED SINGAPORE BY A WHOPPING 52 POINTS, 110-58, IN THE 30TH SOUTHEAST ASIAN GAMES AT THE MALL OF ASIA ARENA ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2019.
IN JULY 2016, THERE WAS A COUP ATTEMPT AGAINST ERDOGAN. WHO STARTED IT? WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE? THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF MUCH AND INTERESTING DEBATE, WHICH HAS BEEN HAD AT LENGTH ELSEWHERE. IN ANY CASE, ERDOGAN DECLARED THE COUP ATTEMPT “A GIFT FROM GOD,” MAKING POSSIBLE “A NEW TURKEY.” IT DID, IN A WAY. ERDOGAN EXECUTED A SWEEPING, HORRIFIC CRACKDOWN, ARRESTING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE — JUDGES, PROFESSORS, ANYONE WHO MIGHT DISSENT FROM HIM — AND CEMENTING A PERSONAL RULE. HIS GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED AN “OFFICE FOR HUMAN ABDUCTIONS AND EXECUTIONS” (WHICH I WROTE ABOUT IN THE JANUARY 28, 2019, ISSUE OF
ALL FOUR WERE RELEASED IN 2017 AFTER THE STATE FILED CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST THE DAGGETT JAILERS. ASAY AND PORTER, BOTH HABITUAL OFFENDERS, HAVE SINCE BEEN ARRESTED ON OTHER CHARGES AND ARE BACK IN CUSTODY.

 

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