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Reporters Without Borders score of nations: no place for freedom of speech

China, 176th place: the territory of no freedom

According to Reporters Without Borders, China might be referred to as the biggest open-air jail for bloggers and journalists. The PRC authorities exert huge strain on dissidents, together with workers of overseas media. Entire areas of China stay closed to them, their work is censored, and interviewees and interview companions are sometimes imprisoned.

Reporters Without Borders score of nations: no place for freedom of speech

Syria, 177th place: underneath the bullets

Since the outbreak of the civil struggle in Syria, quite a few media representatives have been persecuted and killed. For a number of years now, Reporters Without Borders has ranked Bashar al-Assad’s regime as an enemy of press freedom. However, each the novel group Al-Nusra Front, opposing Assad, and the militants of the so-called Islamic State kill, kidnap and blackmail journalists.

Reporters Without Borders score of nations: no place for freedom of speech

Turkmenistan, 178th place: imaginary independence

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov owns all media within the nation. The solely exception is the newspaper “Rysgal”, however its publishers should agree on every problem. After the legislation “on media” was adopted within the nation in 2013, declaring freedom of the media and the inadmissibility of censorship, the inhabitants gained entry to overseas media. However, the Internet can also be managed by the federal government.

Reporters Without Borders score of nations: no place for freedom of speech

DPRK, 179th place: the dictator dictates the foundations

There is not any freedom of the press in North Korea both. The DPRK management, led by Kim Jong-un (pictured), controls the whole lot that native newspapers and magazines write. Television and radio receivers of the inhabitants are tuned completely to state broadcasters. Anyone who dares to specific an opinion totally different from that of the occasion results in the so-called “re-education labor camps” – together with all relations.

Reporters Without Borders score of nations: no place for freedom of speech

Eritrea, one hundred and eightieth place: DPRK in African

Reporters Without Borders ranked Eritrea final within the press freedom rankings. According to human rights activists, this nation has the worst regime for the media. Many journalists are pressured to depart their homeland because of persecution and harassment. The inhabitants of Eritrea can study the actual scenario within the nation solely by means of Radio Erena, which hangs from Paris.

Author: Sabrina Pabst, Grigory Arosev