Informe anual sobre libertad de prensa: dictadores e islamistas juntos al final de la lista

Ya podemos acceder al Informe Anual sobre Libertad de Prensa que elabora cada año "Periodistas Sin Fronteras". Independientemente de la pésima situación que ocupa España en el mismo (puesto 33, por debajo de Ghana, Isla Mauricio, Mauritania y casi todos los países de nuestro entorno -sólo superamos a Italia, USA y Japón-) llama poderosamente la atención el hecho de encontrar al final del ránking a los países islámicos junto con las dictaduras socialistas. Una mención especial merecen este año los bloggers, también perseguidos por totalitarios de todo pelaje:

 

Government repression no longer ignores bloggers

The Internet is occupying more and more space in the breakdown of press freedom violations. Several countries fell in the ranking this year because of serious, repeated violations of the free flow of online news and information.

In Malaysia (124th), Thailand (135th), Vietnam (162nd) and Egypt (146th), for example, bloggers were arrested and news websites were closed or made inaccessible. “We are concerned about the increase in cases of online censorship,” Reporters Without Borders said. “More and more governments have realised that the Internet can play a key role in the fight for democracy and they are establishing new methods of censoring it. The governments of repressive countries are now targeting bloggers and online journalists as forcefully as journalists in the traditional media.”

At least 64 persons are currently imprisoned worldwide because of what they posted on the Internet. China maintains its leadership in this form of repression, with a total of 50 cyber-dissidents in prison. Eight are being held in Vietnam. A young man known as Kareem Amer was sentenced to four years in prison in Egypt for blog posts criticising the president and Islamist control of the country’s universities.

El informe resumido y acceso a los informes por regiones lo encontrarán aquí. Una versión en formato .pdf está aquí.