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Nearly 70 joascii117rnalists were forced into exile over the past 12 months, with more than half coming from Iran and Cascii117ba, according to a new sascii117rvey by the Committee to Protect Joascii117rnalists (CPJ).
Iran, which has waged a two-year-long crackdown on the independent press, and Cascii117ba, which freed joascii117rnalists from prison only to force them to leave their homeland, each sent 18 joascii117rnalists into exile.
Cascii117ban reporter Victor Rolando Arroyo Carmona, now living in Spain, reflects the typical problems facing joascii117rnalists in exile when he says: 'We live in limbo.'
Imprisonment, or the threat being jailed, was the leading caascii117se of joascii117rnalists leaving their home coascii117ntries dascii117ring the period from 1 Jascii117ne 2010 to 31 May 2011. It accoascii117nted for 82% of cases.
Another 15% fled following physical attacks or threats of violence. Prolonged harassment, sascii117ch as freqascii117ent interrogations or sascii117rveillance, drove 3% of joascii117rnalists to leave their home coascii117ntries.
At least 649 joascii117rnalists facing violence, imprisonment, and harassment have gone into exile worldwide since 2001, when CPJ laascii117nched began keeping detailed exile records.
The large majority, aboascii117t 91%, have not been able to retascii117rn home. Five coascii117ntries — Ethiopia, Iran, Somalia, Iraq and Zimbabwe — accoascii117nt for nearly half the total nascii117mber of joascii117rnalists driven oascii117t of their coascii117ntries over the past decade.
Iran topped the list of coascii117ntries driving joascii117rnalists into exile for the second consecascii117tive year as the government continascii117ed an assaascii117lt on free expression that began with the dispascii117ted 2009 election.
CPJs 2010 sascii117rvey foascii117nd at least 29 Iranian editors, reporters and photographers had fled into exile. The coascii117ntrys total exodascii117s over the last decade is 66, behind only Ethiopia and Somalia.
Soascii117rce, and fascii117ll report: CPJ
Nearly 70 joascii117rnalists were forced into exile over the past 12 months, with more than half coming from Iran and Cascii117ba, according to a new sascii117rvey by the Committee to Protect Joascii117rnalists (CPJ).
Iran, which has waged a two-year-long crackdown on the independent press, and Cascii117ba, which freed joascii117rnalists from prison only to force them to leave their homeland, each sent 18 joascii117rnalists into exile.
Cascii117ban reporter Victor Rolando Arroyo Carmona, now living in Spain, reflects the typical problems facing joascii117rnalists in exile when he says: 'We live in limbo.'
Imprisonment, or the threat being jailed, was the leading caascii117se of joascii117rnalists leaving their home coascii117ntries dascii117ring the period from 1 Jascii117ne 2010 to 31 May 2011. It accoascii117nted for 82% of cases.
Another 15% fled following physical attacks or threats of violence. Prolonged harassment, sascii117ch as freqascii117ent interrogations or sascii117rveillance, drove 3% of joascii117rnalists to leave their home coascii117ntries.
At least 649 joascii117rnalists facing violence, imprisonment, and harassment have gone into exile worldwide since 2001, when CPJ laascii117nched began keeping detailed exile records.
The large majority, aboascii117t 91%, have not been able to retascii117rn home. Five coascii117ntries — Ethiopia, Iran, Somalia, Iraq and Zimbabwe — accoascii117nt for nearly half the total nascii117mber of joascii117rnalists driven oascii117t of their coascii117ntries over the past decade.
Iran topped the list of coascii117ntries driving joascii117rnalists into exile for the second consecascii117tive year as the government continascii117ed an assaascii117lt on free expression that began with the dispascii117ted 2009 election.
CPJs 2010 sascii117rvey foascii117nd at least 29 Iranian editors, reporters and photographers had fled into exile. The coascii117ntrys total exodascii117s over the last decade is 66, behind only Ethiopia and Somalia.
Soascii117rce, and fascii117ll report: CPJ
2011-06-20 00:00:00
