New CPJ Report: 199 Journalists Are Imprisoned Worldwide

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Take a look at the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Twitter feed this morning, and what you’ll see is a scroll of names–one per tweet, grouped by country–of imprisoned journalists.

It gives a visual, visceral punch to the contents of a new census released today by CPJ, detailing the names, stories and origins of journalists jailed as of Dec. 1, 2015. That the count, 199, is slightly down from the previous three years gives little relief; it is still higher than any year from 2000-2011.

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