Fun thing is if Pen’s criterias were a little looser, Israel would be way ahead at the top of the list. Not even accounting for capita. Palestinians routinely get arrested for Facebook posts.
For example between 2015 and 2018, at least 470 Palestinians were jailed for “incitement”.
You’re right, that is fun. Ah, the sweet sweet silencing of dissent.
Isn’t it? 👉👈
Is anyone familiar with what they define as “exercising their freedom of expression”?
With the total number of people imprisoned globally for exercising their freedom of expression estimated to be at least 339
339 globally sounds extremely low to me
There’s no way that’s true, the ccp had at least thousands of journalists, authors and published professors in prisons and detention camps 50 years ago.
There was even more extrajudicial killing at that time, though, so maybe they were only detained a few days before being executed?
Maybe they mean online writers specifically, ?
Mexican candidates…“I wish Mexico was like China!”…cuz you know, jail time is probably better than no time at all.