Opinion: New report paints a grim picture of global press freedom
Detained Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo, front, and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, in August.
I had no idea it would go on to become a main focus of my work. But I quickly understood from the gruesome tales I was recounting that the many instances of repression of journalists — taking place in far-flung corners of the world — should be seen as part of a rising threat, spreading globally like a virus, rather than as isolated incidents or one-off crimes.
In the United States, the Trump administration has shrugged off the murder of Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudi regime, as well as the deaths of journalists in India whose killers have escaped prosecution during the Narendra Modi era. Europe, meanwhile, has witnessed the slaughter of reporters by crime syndicates working in cahoots with corrupt government officials.
“The hostility towards journalists expressed by political leaders in many countries has incited increasingly serious and frequent acts of violence that have fueled an unprecedented level of fear and danger for journalists,” the report notes. India — home to more newspaper readers than the number of citizens in the United States — slid to 140th on the list after a year that saw the killings of at least six journalists go unpunished in 2018.
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