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Egyptian journalist Mostafa Al-A’sar in Nov., 2024. Al-A’sar, who now lives in Canada, was jailed by Egyptian authorities for nearly four years.

Jordan MacInnis is the director of domestic programs, and Mujtaba Haris is a journalist and a program manager, at Journalists for Human Rights.

In 2024, a record number of people lived outside of the country in which they were born. The figure is now over a quarter of a billion worldwide, the highest in history.

This number includes a surge in journalists who are either fleeing conflict or a domestic culture of impunity, and are forced to move. According to non-profit International Media Support, exiled media workers may become the main, if not the only, source of public-interest journalism in a growing number of countries across every

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