“33 estimated number of journalists in Chinese jails at the beginning of 2008,” reads the report of the Reporters Without Borders.
More analysis from Time’s The China Blog:
Earlier this week we mentioned the recent release of three journalists who had been imprisoned in China and whether that means conditions are improving for press freedom. The journalist group Reporters Without Borders doesn’t think so. Today they released their annual report on global press freedom. While it covers 2007 and thus doesn’t include the recent releases, this comment in the intro seems to speak about what is happening this year: “Nobody apart from the International Olympic Committee seems to believe any longer that the government will make a significant human rights concession before the Games start. Every time a journalist or blogger is released, another goes into prison.”
