{"id":309852,"date":"2024-01-01T07:38:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T07:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=309852"},"modified":"2024-01-01T07:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T07:41:15","slug":"journallists-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/africa\/journallists-reporters\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 547 journalists spent New Year\u2019s Eve in Prison -Reporters Without Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A total of 547 Journalists globally spent New Year\u2019s Eve in prison, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with some 779 jailed at some point in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China, Myanmar, Belarus and Vietnam are the four biggest jailers of media personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between them, these countries are holding more than half of the world\u2019s imprisoned journalists, according to an RSF release to the Ghana News Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sentences passed on women journalists broke records in 2023 with the victims, including\u202fElaheh Mohammadi\u202fand\u202fNiloofar Hamedi, sentenced to 12 and 13 years in prison respectively in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They included\u202fMaryna Zolatava, Liudmila Chekina\u202fand\u202fValeriya Kastsiuhova, icons of independent journalism in Belarus, whose sentences ranged from 10 to 12 years and included Burundi\u2019s\u202fFloriane Irangabiye, one of the few women journalists jailed in sub-Saharan Africa, who was given a 10-year sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n