Among 220 journalists in prison across the world,Tayseer Nazmi In The Street !
The Jordanian writer and journalist Tayseer Nazmi lives in the street down town Amman since 26 March 2009 220 journalists are now in prison across the world Annual survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists shows China and Iran have most journalists in jail Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste awaiting sentence in Cairo in June 2014. Photo: EPA/KHALED ELFIQI Photograph: KHALED ELFIQI/EPA Roy Greenslade Wednesday 17 December 2014 09.37 GMT More journalists are in jail across the world at present than a year ago. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 220 journalists are in prison, an increase of nine from 2013. It is the second-highest number of imprisoned journalists since CPJ started its annual census in 1990, and highlights a resurgence of authoritarian governments in countries such as China, Ethiopia , Burma and Egypt. China’s use of anti-state charges and Iran’s revolving ...