10 Most Censored Countries – Committee to Protect Journalists
Lowlight: In April 2019, police agents detained[125] Roberto Jesús Quiñones, a contributor to the news website CubaNet, outside the Guantánamo Municipal Tribunal where he was covering a trial, and beat him while he was being transported to the Guantánamo police station. Quiñones had been harassed by Cuban authorities in the past, is barred from leaving the country, and has been detained several times, according to CubaNet[126].A man sits in front of a poster of Cuba’s late president, Fidel Castro, at the Cuban State Television and Radio headquarters in Havana, Cuba, on March 14, 2017. Cuba has the most restricted climate for the press in the Americas. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
Methodology: The 10 Most Censored Countries list assesses direct and indirect government censorship based on CPJ research, as well as the expertise of the organization’s staff. Countries are evaluated based on a series of benchmarks, including:
- Absence of and/or restrictions on privately owned or independent media
- Criminal defamation laws; criminal restrictions on the dissemination of false news
- Blocking of websites
- Jamming of foreign broadcasts
- Blocking of foreign correspondents
- Surveillance of journalists by authorities
- Restrictions on journalists’ movements
- License requirements to conduct journalism
- Restrictions on electronic recording and dissemination
- Targeted hacking or trolling campaigns
References
- ^ Article 19 (www.un.org)
- ^ Syria (cpj.org)
- ^ Yemen (cpj.org)
- ^ Somalia (cpj.org)
- ^ shut down (cpj.org)
- ^ worst jailer of journalists (cpj.org)
- ^ requirement (www.refworld.org)
- ^ national objectives (www.refworld.org)
- ^ legal monopoly (www.refworld.org)
- ^ radio stations in exile (www.dw.com)
- ^ U.N. International Telecommunication Union (www.itu.int)
- ^ suggests (cipesa.org)
- ^ the BBC reported (www.bbc.com)
- ^ foreign journalists (medium.economist.com)
- ^ reports (cpj.org)
- ^ wrote (mg.co.za)
- ^ rejected (www.shabait.com)
- ^ Korean Central News Agency (www.kcna.kp)
- ^ reported (www.bbc.com)
- ^ Associated Press (www.ap.org)
- ^ Agence France-Presse (www.afp.com)
- ^ denied (cpj.org)
- ^ detained, and expelled (cpj.org)
- ^ tightly controlled intranet (cpj.org)
- ^ TV and radio signals (www.intermedia.org)
- ^ prevent (thediplomat.com)
- ^ The Hankyoreh (english.hani.co.kr)
- ^ sentenced (cpj.org)
- ^ promote (foreignpolicy.com)
- ^ detaining (cpj.org)
- ^ jailing (cpj.org)
- ^ flee the country (www.rferl.org)
- ^ Khronika Turkmenistana (www.hronikatm.com)
- ^ questioned by the authorities (www.opendemocracy.net)
- ^ U.N. International Telecommunication Union (www.itu.int)
- ^ Media Sustainability Index (www.irex.org)
- ^ revoked (www.theguardian.com)
- ^ reported (www.rferl.org)
- ^ barred (cpj.org)
- ^ detained (cpj.org)
- ^ assaulted (cpj.org)
- ^ suffered sharp deterioration (cpj.org)
- ^ imprison (cpj.org)
- ^ 16 journalists were behind bars (cpj.org)
- ^ detained (cpj.org)
- ^ abused and tortured (cpj.org)
- ^ The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
- ^ ubiquitous (ww)
- ^ The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
- ^ monitor (cpj.org)
- ^ Freedom on the Net (freedomhouse.org)
- ^ report (www.cjr.org)
- ^ Jamal Khashoggi (cpj.org)
- ^ called (cpj.org)
- ^ 47 behind bars (cpj.org)
- ^ news (technode.com)
- ^ reports (www.whatsonweibo.com)
- ^ Cyberspace Administration of China’s permission (www.cac.gov.cn)
- ^ regulations (www.miit.gov.cn)
- ^ monitor (cpj.org)
- ^ The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com)
- ^ surveillance (cpj.org)
- ^ denied (cpj.org)
- ^ said (cpj.org)
- ^ three million (www.rfa.org)
- ^ charges (cpj.org)
- ^ said (cpj.org)
- ^ followed (www.nytimes.com)
- ^ states (wipolex.wipo.int)
- ^ new cybersecurity law (www.allens.com.au)
- ^ Reuters (www.reuters.com)
- ^ Decree 72 (www.eff.org)
- ^ Censored topics (cpj.org)
- ^ Force 47 (www.ft.com)
- ^ bloggers (cpj.org)
- ^ 11 were behind bars (cpj.org)
- ^ Truong Duy Nhat (cpj.org)
- ^ news (www.bbc.com)
- ^ reports (www.voanews.com)
- ^ climate of fear (cpj.org)
- ^ families (cpj)
- ^ permitted (foreignmedia.farhang.gov.ir)
- ^ international outlets (cpj.org)
- ^ arrest (cpj.org)
- ^ harsh prison sentences (cpj.org)
- ^ protests (cpj.org)
- ^ spying (en.radiofarda.com)
- ^ jamming satellite television broadcasts (en.radiofarda.com)
- ^ websites and key social media platforms (iranhumanrights.org)
- ^ internet (www.newsweek.com)
- ^ banned circumvention tools (en.radiofarda.com)
- ^ banned (www.bloomberg.com)
- ^ Yashar Soltani (cpj.org)
- ^ government owned (cpj.org)
- ^ Local (cpj.org)
- ^ report (cpj.org)
- ^ according (www.civicus.org)
- ^ Press, Printing and Audiovisual Law (cesge.org)
- ^ Freedom of the Press (freedomhouse.org)
- ^ news (www.africanews.com)
- ^ reports (citizen.co.za)
- ^ EG Justice (www.egjustice.org)
- ^ Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé (cpj.org)
- ^ refused to renew his passport (cpj.org)
- ^ few independent journalists (www.washingtonpost.com)
- ^ bloggers (cpj.org)
- ^ arresting (cpj.org)
- ^ raiding (cpj.org)
- ^ criminal probes (cpj.org)
- ^ Charter 97 (cpj.org)
- ^ Natalya Radina (cpj.org)
- ^ recent legislative moves (cpj.org)
- ^ Freedom on the Net (freedomhouse.org)
- ^ found guilty (news.tut.by)
- ^ law (www.cuba.cu)
- ^ referendum (cpj.org)
- ^ prohibitively (www.cnbc.com)
- ^ ordered to block (cpj.org)
- ^ restricts access (ooni.torproject.org)
- ^ use websites (cpj.org)
- ^ short-term detentions (cpj.org)
- ^ home raids (cpj.org)
- ^ October 2016 (cpj.org)
- ^ granted selectively (freedomhouse.org)
- ^ detained (cpj.org)
- ^ CubaNet (www.cubanet.org)