Press freedom report 2008
on 23 Oct 2008
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The
2008 Press Freedom Index was published on Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders. You can see a full listing of
the rankings here,
“The post-9/11 world is now clearly drawn,†Reporters Without Borders said. “Destabilised and on the defensive, the leading democracies are gradually eroding the space for freedoms. The economically most powerful dictatorships arrogantly proclaim their authoritarianism, exploiting the international community’s divisions and the ravages of the wars carried out in the name of the fight against terrorism. Religious and political taboos are taking greater hold by the year in countries that used to be advancing down the road of freedom.†link
Only a few countries rose noticeably in the ranking namely,
Lebanon (66th), for example, has climbed back to a more logical position after the end of the bomb attacks on influential journalists of recent years. Haiti (73rd) continues its slow rise, as do Argentina (68th) and Maldives (104th). But the democratic transition has halted in Mauritania (105th), preventing it from continuing its rise, while the slender gains of the past few years in Chad (133rd) and Sudan (135th) were swept away by the overnight introduction of censorship.
where is Afghanistan on this?? I hope they include it by having an emerging journalist sintence to death(and now to 20years of prison. And killing of national journalists by Taliban....I am sure it is breaking the records...