![]() ![]() In fact, three of every four people worldwide "are experiencing a deteriorating environment for freedom of expression," the Article 19 report notes. Today, according to a tally by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 64 journalists remain missing and 250 are in prison.Īnd a new report by the United Kingdom-based charity Article 19 - named for the article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that enunciates the right to seek and receive news and express opinions - concludes that freedom of expression is at its lowest point in a decade, and declining. Since my release in November 2008, 626 journalists worldwide have been killed while doing their jobs. ![]() (I was released a couple of weeks later in a prisoner exchange.) But the US government's willingness to help find me, a Canadian journalist who had been kidnapped while on assignment in Afghanistan, represented some semblance of a safety net for people doing a dangerous job.Įleven years later, that safety net is gone - and journalists are in more danger than ever. The negotiators were unable to secure that concession. ![]()
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