44% of China's Imprisoned Journalists Are Uyghurs

A group of U.S. House lawmakers introduced a resolution on Tuesday, World Press Freedom Day, which named countries including China, Russia and Belarus as nations that committed “repressive and brutal actions” against journalists.

China is “one of the worst media environments in the world and seeks to curtail political speech inside and outside the country...,” stated the resolution, citing the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2021 findings.

Bahram Sintash, a Uyghur American, said his father is one of the journalists detained in China.

“The U.S. government should speak up for many Uyghur journalists like my father who are arbitrarily detained and imprisoned by the Chinese authorities,” Sintash, who lives in Virginia, told VOA. read more