{"id":25378,"date":"2018-12-13T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25378"},"modified":"2018-12-13T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T09:23:13","slug":"jailing-journalists-has-become-a-new-normal-says-advocacy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25378","title":{"rendered":"Jailing journalists has become a &#8216;new normal,&#8217; says advocacy group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>In China, award-winning photojournalist Lu Guang was reportedly taken away by authorities in a region where an <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/14\/asia\/uyghur-china-xinjiang-interview-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">estimated 1 million Muslim Uyghurs<\/a> are being held in state-controlled &#8220;re-education camps.&#8221; In Turkey, Austrian journalist Max Zirngast was arrested, joining dozens of reporters currently imprisoned in the country. In Myanmar, two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were jailed while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">These detentions represent just a few examples of a sustained crackdown on press freedoms around the world, which has seen at least 250 journalists jailed annually over the past three years, according to report released Thursday by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).  <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The non-profit group found that least 251 journalists were jailed in 2018 &#8212; with 70% facing anti-state charges, such as belonging to or aiding groups deemed terrorist organizations. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)In China, award-winning photojournalist Lu Guang was reportedly taken away by authorities in a region where an estimated 1 million Muslim Uyghurs are being held in state-controlled &#8220;re-education camps.&#8221; In Turkey, Austrian journalist Max Zirngast was arrested, joining dozens of reporters currently imprisoned in the country. In Myanmar, two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}