In 2020, these are the worst jailers of journalists and how many journalists they have jailed:

#China 47
#Turkey 37
#Egypt 27
#SaudiArabia 24

In these countries, the number of jailed journalists rose significantly:

#Belarus 10
#Ethiopia 7

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https://cpj.org/reports/2020/12/record-number-journalists-jailed-imprisoned/

#China was the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row, according to CPJ's 2020 prison census.

Authorities in the country arrested several journalists for their coverage of the #COVID19 pandemic.

https://cpj.org/reports/2020/12/record-number-journalists-jailed-imprisoned/#methodology

Journalist Zhang Zhan, who began posting reports from #Wuhan on Twitter and YouTube in early February, remains jailed in #China.

She is one of the three journalists still jailed in the country for #COVID19 coverage that threatened Beijing’s narrative. https://cpj.org/2020/05/journalist-zhang-zhan-arrested-for-covering-covid/

#Turkey is the second-worst jailer of journalists worldwide. CPJ found 37 journalists imprisoned there during its annual census.

Every journalist jailed in the country faces anti-state accusations.

https://cpj.org/reports/2020/12/record-number-journalists-jailed-imprisoned/#methodology