Attacks on the Press in 2023

 Via Committe To Protect Journalists

January 18, 2024

Attacks on journalists’ lives and liberty remained at near record-levels in 2023, with the Committee to Protect Journalists documenting 320 journalists imprisoned for their work as of the December 1 date of its annual prison census — near the global all-time high of more than 360 a year earlier. Israel made a rapid ascent on the 2023 list, becoming the sixth-worst jailer of journalists after the start of the Israel-Gaza war on October 7.  Click for full interactive article