Telephone interview with Méta-Media

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Emergency legislation, the obligation to be patriotic in reporting, travel restrictions, the abusive use of laws on disinformation and retaliatory measures for whistleblowers. Different forms of restrictions on press freedoms in the world One of the most widespread attacks is linked to the establishment of a state of emergency legislative system. The latter often allows for censorship of information that is sensitive to the government and leads to a reduction in the freedom of journalists.


Pauline Adès-Mevel, editor-in-chief of RSF, explains this “ shock cyprus cell phone number list strategy” in a . political leaders are taking advantage of the context of general apathy and the state of shock in which the population finds itself in the face of Covid-19 to impose their views on how journalism should be practiced in their territory. In Cambodia , for example , The government has given itself legal means to prohibit the publication of any information that it believes could generate unrest.


Many countries are affected by this scheme, such as El Salvador, Thailand, Armenia, etc., where curfews and tracking systems have been temporarily put in place. In Japan , an emergency law (lifted on May 25) placed the public broadcaster NHK on the list of institutions to which the government is authorized to give "instructions," while in Ukraine , the public television channel PBC was deprived of a quarter of its budget.