Hong Kong publisher tops '10 Most Urgent' list of imprisoned journalists
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Given the increasing number of journalists detained for simply doing their jobs and seeking to tell the truth, and given the successful 2024 campaign to free Gershkovich and Kurmasheva, the One Free Press Coalition unites our collective voices in support of the following individuals and their urgent cases of press persecution.
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1. Jimmy Lai (Hong Kong)
Since December 2020, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has been jailed in solitary confinement in a Hong Kong maximum security prison. The 77-year-old media entrepreneur and British citizen founded the newspaper Apple Daily,
which has since been shuttered in China's crackdown on pro-democracy advocacy and journalism. Lai's son Sebastien
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2. Shin Daewe (Myanmar)
Award-winning documentary filmmaker
3. Frenchie Mae Cumpio (Philippines)
Tacloban-based journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, 26,
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4. Pham Doan Trang (Vietnam)
Vietnamese author, journalist, and activist Pham Doan Trang, 45, was arrested in 2020 and
Ihar Losik
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5. Ihar Losik (Belarus)
A freelance journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Belarus Service, Ihar Losik was detained in June 2020 in advance of Belarus's rigged election in August. He was tried on
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6. Sevinj Vagifgizi (Azerbaijan)
Since 2023, Azerbaijan has implemented a major
Vladyslav Yesypenko
RFE/RL
7. Vladyslav Yesypenko (Russia)
One of at least 18 Ukrainian journalists from Russian-occupied Crimea being
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Li Yanhe
RTI
8. Li Yanhe (China)
China is the world's leading jailer of journalists, holding at least 50 behind bars, according to the
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9. Makhabat Tajibek kyzy, Azamat Ishenbekov, and Aike Beishekeyeva (Kyrgyzstan)
In February, Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court
10. Joakim Medin (Turkey)
Joakim Medin, a special correspondent for the Swedish newspaper ETC, has been
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