Freelancejournalist ✅My latest post on Substack:
Honoring World Press Freedom Day. #WorldPressFreedom #WorldPressFreedomDay2026 #press #freedom #journalism
https://open.substack.com/pub/freelancerjourn/p/world-press-freedom-day-2026?r=4ew1gh&utm_medium=ios
Index on CensorshipJournalists are under unprecedented attacks around the world.
On #WorldPressFreedom Day, we hear from three different journalists reporting on the state of press freedom in the #Gulf, #Israel and #Turkey.
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UN Special ProceduresOn #WorldPressFreedom day, @SR_Afghanistan calls on authorities in #Afghanistan to release detained journalists and ensure media workers can carry out work without fear of reprisal. Free & independent press is indispensable for Afghanistan’s future.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2026/04/call-urgent-protection-journalists-afghanistan-amid-ongoing
https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2026/04/call-urgent-protection-journalists-afghanistan-amid-ongoing
Afghanistan 🇦🇫Quote from United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva):
"Media workers are being bombed in their cars, abducted from their offices, silenced behind bars and dismissed from their jobs." @UNHumanRights warns ahead of #WorldPressFreedom Day on May 3.
This year alone, at least 14 journalists have been killed.
Source: United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva)
[ https://x.com/UNGeneva/status/2050213012879892670 ]
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project#WorldPressFreedom: Bolot Temirov, founder of Temirov Live, is one of Kyrgyzstan’s leading investigative journalists. In 2022, he was stripped of his Kyrgyz citizenship and forcibly removed from the country following a series of investigations into high-level corruption.
McDonald_69Press freedom in the United States has hit a record low, according to the latest World Press Freedom Index published annually by Reporters Without Borders.
Why it matters: For years, American press freedom was generally considered "satisfactory" by Reporters Without Borders' standards. As of last year, it's now "problematic."
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025: economic fragility a leading threat to press freedom
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025: economic fragility a leading threat to press freedom
Although physical attacks against journalists are the most visible violations of press freedom, economic pressure is also a major, more insidious problem. The economic indicator on the RSF World Press Freedom Index now stands at an unprecedented, critical low as its decline continued in 2025. As a result, the global state of press freedom is now classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the history of the Index.
Taran RampersadGood writeup. #AlJazeera AlJazeeraBan #WorldPressFreedom
"...So instead of just decrying Israel as another apartheid rogue state, let us take a look at the very explicable mechanics behind the erosion of press freedoms, the loss of transparency of government, and the diminishing of public access to reliable and fact-checked information:
Let’s begin our journey with an informed public..."
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2024/04/09/the-fears-of-a-weak-state/
Israeli Cabinet Votes to Shut Down Al Jazeera’s Operations in the Country
#israel gonna Israel. A definite blow to #worldpressfreedom.
#worldpressfreedomday #aljazeera #press #middleeast #GazaWar #aljazeeraban
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/05/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas?smid=nytcore-android-share
7sleepersmusic#PressFreedom in #USA continues to decline, from #45 last year to #55 this year. USA was ranked #17 in the initial survey in 2002. #WorldPressFreedom #WorldPressFreedomDay #WPFD2024 #Journalism #USPol https://rsf.org/en/index?year=2024