RT by @MarietjeSchaake: “We have been campaigning for Evan’s release and also Alsu Kurmasheva…for more than a year and it will be amazing to see them hopefully both step off a plane, be in the arms of their families, finally, and be free," CPJ CEO @jodieginsberg told the BBC this morning.

Jailing journalists is an increasingly common tactic worldwide. 320 journalists were jailed worldwide on December 1, 2023. This is the second-highest number of imprisoned journalists CPJ has ever recorded.

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