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Global data on press freedom showed a dramatic decline on freedom of information last year, according to the annual study conducted by Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières (rsf)), since 2002.
Reporters Without Borders released its annual report on violence against journalists worldwide. Italy shows a trend of less security for those who work in the media: 2014 has indeed seen an increase in threats, libel suits, and physical attacks towards them.
Iran has stepped up efforts to harass journalists and media companies in the past several weeks, Reporters Without Borders says.
Two Swedish journalists were sentenced to 11 years in an Ethiopian prison on Tuesday on charges of illegally entering the country and supporting terrorism.
Upholding social stability—not freedom of speech—is the prescribed function of journalists in China.
Six months after the Beijing Olympics began on Aug. 8, 2008, Reporters Without Borders urges the Chinese authorities to release all the free speech activists and other citizens still being held in connection with the games.
