The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom watchdog, has released a report on the suppression of foreign journalists worldwide in 2009. The report is called “Attacks on the Press 2009.”

The report lists the Chinese regime as being the top jailer of journalists worldwide in 2009. According to the report, the regime’s other infringements last year include: Banning foreign journalists from reporting in western China during the anniversary of the 2008 Tibetan protests; harassing journalists in earthquake-hit Sichuan Province; and blocking BBC and CNN cameras in Beijing during the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

And in Hong Kong, a reporter for Esquire magazine said she was fired after disclosing that her editors pulled a Tiananmen Massacre anniversary feature.

When the Committee carried out its annual census on December 1, 24 journalists had been jailed in China. Most of them worked online, and more than half were held on vague charges like “revealing state secrets” or “subverting state power.”