United Kingdom is among the countries with the worst press freedom
News24xx.com - United Kingdom is one of the countries with the worst press freedom. There is law that restricted media and there is some kind of hostility toward journalists. Last year, it was ranked 40th from 180 countries in 2018 World Press Freedom Index made by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a non-profit organization.
Other than UK, other countries with worse Press Freedom are Germany, Ireland, France, South Africa, Jamaica, Namibia and Slovakia.
Countries with the most press-friendly environments and easy information exchanges are Scandinavian countries with Norway, Sweden and Finland being the best in the index. Meanwhile, the country with the worse press freedom is North Korea, below Syria, China and Vietnam.
In UK, there is an “alarming” proposal made by the Law Commission to replace the Official Secrets Act with an updated Espionage Act, which will enable them to arrest reporters and journalists for obtaining leaked information. Furthermore, Home Secretary Amber Rudd threatened to restrict encryption on messaging service such as WhatsApp and plan to make the repeated viewing of extremist content as a crime.
RSF UK Bureau Director, Rebecca Vincent said that being ranked 40th in RSF index is such an embarrassing thing for UK, and called the UK government to review laws that restrict the press. “This is unacceptable for a country that plays an important international standard-setting role when it comes to human rights and fundamental freedom,” she said, as cited from Independent.
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