WASHINGTON POSTS EXPLAINS WHY RICHARD F. CARAVIELLO WILL BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY

 

Media

Perspective

The ugly roots of the 

violent global crackdown 

on journalists

WHY RICK CARAVIELLO

IS SO BAD FOR 

MEDFORD 

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The bad news about global press freedom just keeps coming.

Just last month, in a frightening display of authoritarian power, Hong Kong police raided the newsroom of the pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, and arrested top editors as they warned readers not to repost certain of its articles online. The paper, which for years had been a tough critic of the Chinese Communist Party, was forced to fold.

A few weeks earlier, the dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, whose messaging-app channel was widely used in last year’s protests against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko, was jailed after the commercial flight he was on, from Greece to Lithuania, was essentially hijacked to arrest him. He remains under house arrest.

And the number of journalists jailed because of their work hit a new high last year as authoritarian governments suppressed coverage of the pandemic or political protests.