Big four revealed

Saturday February 26th 2005, 11:24 pm
Filed under: Global news

Four countries with long records of press repression—China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Burma—account for more than three-quarters of the journalists imprisoned around the world, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found.

Imprisoned journalists

“These four countries operate outside the international mainstream,” CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper said. “The widespread jailing of journalists is pursued only by those few nations that distrust their own citizens and care little about the opinion of the rest of the world.”

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