STOCKHOLM: According to a research released Thursday by a democracy think group, press freedoms around the world have drastically decreased over the last five years, reaching their lowest point in fifty years.
According to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) research, the countries with the largest declines in journalistic freedom were Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, and Myanmar, which are already among the worst.
It further stated that “a spike in defamation cases initiated by the government and its political allies against journalists, and raids on journalists’ residences” was the reason for South Korea’s fourth-largest decline.
