A recent report revealed by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) based in the US says that Turkey is the worst jailer, when it comes to imprisonment of journalists, as compared to any other nation.

The report was released on Tuesday, which says that Iran and China are the countries following Turkey in this matter. This year, the country has shown a sky-touching number of prisoner journalists.

It has been told that editors and reporters have been alleged of committing terrorism as well as other crimes that are straight against the state. On December 1 alone, a minimum of 49 journalists were imprisoned by Turkey.

These included Kurdish reporters and other journalists, all of whom were charged of plotting against the government. As compared to Turkey, 45 journalists were caught in Iran and China had arrested 32 journalists.

But, CPJ executive director is of the opinion that governments use 'terrorist' labels whenever they need to detain and imprison journalists. Also, it is being said that imprisonment is also selective in Turkey as a media pressure tactic.

"Criminalizing probing coverage of inconvenient topics violates not only international law, but impedes the right of people around the world to gather, disseminate, and receive independent information", sources quoted CPJ's Joel Simon as saying.