The total is 53 more than the tally last year and is the highest number since the New York-based organization began conducting worldwide surveys in 1990.
The census of journalists behind bars on Dec. 1 found that anti-state charges such as terrorism, treason and subversion were the most common made against journalists in 2012. At least 132 journalists are being held around the world on such charges, CPJ said.
The group said that broadly worded anti-terror laws have allowed Turkish authorities to equate the coverage of banned groups with terrorism.
Mehmet Ali Birand, a top editor with the Istanbul-based station Kanal D, said the Turkish government "does not differentiate between these two major things: freedom of expression and terrorism."
The Turkish embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CPJ said the second-worst jailer of the press is Iran, with 45 behind bars. The group cited news reports that said Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti was arrested in October and died after being beaten and hung by his limbs from the ceiling.
China was third with 32 journalists behind bars, 19 of them Tibetans or Uighurs imprisoned for documenting ethnic tensions, CPJ said.
"Journalists who report on areas deemed 'most sensitive' by the state — China's troubled ethnic regions of Tibet and Xinjiang — are most vulnerable," said Phelim Kine, deputy director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch.
The overwhelming majority of the 232 detainees are local journalists being held by their own governments. Just three foreign journalists were on the list.
CPJ said the list does not include journalists imprisoned and released throughout the year, nor does it include journalists abducted by non-state entities such as criminal gangs or militant groups.
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Online: www.cpj.org
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.” Matthew Henry
Amused yet?
Thanks though. I was indeed amused. You've been a great joke.
Since time and memorial, every swinging protuberance that has ever walked the earth was known by the company they kept. It’s the old birds of a feather flock together principle. That is until the slobbering love affair between the media and the Anointed One was consummated.
The position of the media was and remains - never mind his father was a committed communist AND he idolized a radical communist professor AND his political career commenced in the living room of an unrepentant convicted domestic terrorist AND that he belonged to, worked for and openly associated with communist organizations AND he sat under the teaching of an America-Hater for 20 years. The aforementioned media types and organizations glossed over these FACTS like yesterday’s fish wrap. Kind of like sticking fingers in the ears and singing La-La-La loudly as you can.
Objective journalism died in the run up to the 2008 election and has done nothing but putrefy since and all you have in their defense is a dysfunctional slap at a conservative news outlet. And I thought Morn was lame! Congratulations as you have set a new standard of insignificance in rewarding conversation. (That was Rule #5 back at you in case you missed it)
BTW: without looking, can you define fascist? Thought so.