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Number of Imprisoned Internet Journalists Rises Around The World

December 11, 2006

Some 49 journalists whose primary work appears on the Internet or via email dispatches were imprisoned around the world on December 1.

That number, -said to be an increase of eight from the previous December 1 as well as an all-time high-comes from the International Committee to Protect Journalists.

Numerically, China and Cuba are the two biggest transgressors. But incredible as it may seen, one of these Internet journalists is being imprisoned by U.S. authorities.

That would be Joshua Wolf, who has refused to a hand over his footage of a 2005 protest against a G-8 economic summit to U.S. authorities.

“I refer to the freedom of the press as the canary in the coal mine,” Joshua Friedman, director of international programs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, tells IP Democracy's Cynthia Brumfeld. “It’s a barometer of the insecurity of the people running these governments. One of the things that makes them insecure these days is the power of the Internet."

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