In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists 1/24/25, 10:29 AM whose family and international counsel are subject to retaliatory tactics by China, the world’s leading jailer of journalists. – Professional legal groups and bar associations should support, protect, and advocate on behalf of lawyers defending journalists and news outlets targeted and intimidated for their work. – Rights-respecting governments should advocate for persecuted lawyers in bilateral and multilateral forums, and evaluate opportunities for supporting them in exile. 5. Ensure leading jailers change their practices and are held to account China CPJ calls on China to end its years-long repression of journalists, including its targeted persecution of Uyghur journalists. China should begin to address its abysmal record on journalist jailings by ending Jimmy Lai’s sham trial in Hong Kong and releasing him without delay. "e United Kingdom, which is a founding member of the Media Freedom Coalition, must make the case of Lai, a British national, a priority at the highest levels of government. Israel Israel must respect the repeated decisions by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention that its practice of administrative detention in the West Bank violates international human rights law. In particular, Israel must comply with the recent determination – in a case #led by CPJ – that its detention of three Palestinian journalists was discriminatory, arbitrary, and in violation of international law. Israel should heed the working group’s call to investigate the detentions – as well as that of other journalists still held without charge under administrative detention – hold those responsible for these rights violations to account, and provide the aggrieved journalists with compensation or reparations in accordance with international law. CPJ urges Israel’s Military Advocate General in particular, to include the treatment of journalists in the ongoing probes into military actions during the Israel-Gaza war and pay special attention to the cases already reviewed by the U.N. legal experts. https://cpj.org/thematic-reports/in-record-year-china-israel-and-myanmar-are-worlds-leading-jailers-of-journalists/ Page 24 of 27