Press Freedom under Lockdown Across Two-Thirds of the Globe Reporters Without Borders said press freedom was restricted either partly or completely in two thirds of the globe. It warned that authoritarian regimes had used the pandemic to “perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information”, and as a pretext for imposing “especially repressive legislation with provisions combining propaganda with suppression of dissent”. (Image by Miriam Gathigah/IPS)
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. This feature is part of a series highlighting the current state of media freedom globally
Independent journalism is facing a growing crackdown one year into the COVID-19 pandemic as governments around the world restrict access to information and muzzle critical reporting, media and rights watchdogs have warned.
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After criticizing the Venezuelan government’s response to COVID-19 in April, human rights lawyer Iván Virgüez was arrested and tortured by the illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro.
Chinese reporter Zhang Zhan traveled to Wuhan, China, in February 2020 to report on the city’s coronavirus outbreak and was later sentenced to four years in prison. The journalist’s crime: “provoking trouble.”
“I’m just documenting the truth,” Zhan said at a December hearing. “Why can’t I show the truth?”
Human Rights Watch in a report issued February 11 says regimes in Venezuela and the People’s Republic of China are among more than 30 governments that used the COVID-19 pandemic to justify threatening or punishing critics.