More journalists were jailed in Asia than any other region last year, said the The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in its latest annual report o­n attacks o­n the press which was released today.

The report said most attacks o­n journalists in Asia happened far from the eyes of the international press.

"Asia's authoritarian governments have long used national security legislation to jail journalists, and such laws are the primary reason that Asia led the world last year in the number of imprisoned journalists, with 78 behind the bars in the region out of a world total of 136.