{"id":5928,"date":"2022-12-15T03:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:14:53","slug":"the-committee-to-protect-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-committee-to-protect-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Committee to Protect Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Prison Census 2022:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This figure is a new global high that overtakes last year\u2019s record by 20%.<\/li>\n<li>New \u2018fake news\u2019 laws, criminal defamation, and abuse of judiciary are also tactics used to clamp down on press freedom.<\/li>\n<li>This year\u2019s top five jailers of journalists were Iran, China, Myanmar, Turkey, and Belarus, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>The report stated that a key driver behind authoritarian governments\u2019 increasingly oppressive efforts to stifle the media was the intent \u201cto keep the lid on broiling discontent in a world disrupted by COVID-19 and the economic fallout from Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>India draw criticism over its use of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, a preventive detention law, to keep few Kashmiri journalists behind bars after they were granted court-ordered bail in separate cases\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Repression of Minorities:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The report noted that in Iran and Turkey \u2013 both classified as \u201cworst offenders\u201d \u2013 it was Kurdish journalists who bore the brunt of government crackdown.<\/li>\n<li>In China, too, another \u2018worst offender\u2019, many imprisoned journalists were Uighurs from Xinjiang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Committee to Protect Journalists:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>Its headquarters in <strong>New York City.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the Public Safety Act?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Public Safety Act (PSA), 1978, of Jammu &amp; Kashmir is an administrative detention law that allows arrest &amp; detention of any individual without a warrant or specific charges for up to two years without a trial or charge. The Act was first promulgated in 1978 during the chief ministerial tenure of Sheikh Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/governments-around-the-world-jailing-record-number-of-journalists-committee-to-protect-journalists\/article66263493.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent organisation to promote press freedom worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}