The Committee to Protect Journalists marks International Women’s Day by highlighting the cases of female journalists jailed around the world for doing their jobs.
Here are a few of the facts:
- According to CPJ’s recent census, 32 of the 251 journalists currently in jail are women
- In the Asia-Pacific region, 6 women are imprisoned in China and 2 in Vietnam
- Of the overall number jailed worldwide, 3 are serving life sentences and more than half have not been sentenced
- The largest jailer of journalists is Turkey, where 14 of the 68 journalists imprisoned are women
- All of these women are local journalists covering issues in their home countries
- Issues reported by these journalists include public and private corruption, human rights abuses, and police harassment
- Some of those detained suffer from severe health problems or have young children at home
To read more about these cases, read the article here