Press freedom hits 25-year low globally, RSF warns

Journalists face criminalization, detention, and threats to safety as press freedom restrictions intensify globally.

Each year, the space in which journalists pursue truth has grown a little narrower — but this year, Reporters Without Borders marks a threshold: the world has not been this hostile to independent reporting in a quarter-century. Driven by deliberate campaigns of criminalization rather than mere neglect, the erosion spans continents and political systems, with China, Iran, and Russia leading the suppression and even established democracies like Spain registering significant decline. What is at stake is not only the safety of individual reporters, but the capacity of citizens everywhere to know w

Press freedom hits 25-year low globally, RSF warns

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