Global Decline in Press Freedom Also Hits China
Freedom House’s newly released Freedom of the Press 2017 report found that there has been a...
by Cindy | Apr 29, 2017
Freedom House’s newly released Freedom of the Press 2017 report found that there has been a...
by Cindy | Jul 8, 2013
According to a new report from the Hong Kong Journalists Association, press freedom in Hong Kong has reached a new low since Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took office last year. The report’s publication follows a series...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 29, 2012
Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders recently released the 2011-2012 Press Freedom Index, and once again China came in at the very bottom reaches of the international rankings – just ahead of Iran and Syria...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 12, 2012
In a press conference on Friday, Nobel Literature prizewinner Mo Yan gave an unexpected expression of support for fellow laureate Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned winner of the 2010 Peace Prize. Mo’s statement has dampened...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 13, 2011
Last month, the Washington Post reported a legal campaign against Indonesia’s Falun Gong-linked Erabaru Radio, which was apparently instigated by the Chinese embassy. The station’s manager has now been sentenced to...
by cschultz | Feb 12, 2010
The Washington Post reports that Reporters Without Borders has asked IOC president Jacques Rogge, currently at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, to intercede on behalf of Chinese prisoners: Reporters Without Borders said...
by April Dembosky | Mar 12, 2008
In the U.S. State Department’s recently released human rights report, China was no longer included among the top ten worst offenders. The New York Times’ Helene Cooper reports that the annual report did say that...
by Jenny Chu | Feb 17, 2008
From the BBC: Reporters Without Borders claims that China can be blamed for the deteriorating state of Africa’s human rights abuses against journalists. “The influence of China in African affairs has been very toxic...