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Eritrea leads world in press censorship: Report
Eritrea has surpassed North Korea as the world’s top press censor, with Syria and Iran placing third and fourth in a new list published on Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New York-based rights group said Eritrea had climbed to the top of the list by banning all foreign media and controlling every detail of the local media’s coverage through its information ministry. Syria has ratcheted up press restrictions since the outbreak of a popular revolt against President Bashar al-Assad a year ago, leaping from ninth on the CPJ’s 2006 list to third in the latest one. Iran has “mixed high-technology techniques such as Web blocking with brute-force tactics such as mass imprisonment of journalists to control the flow of information and obfuscate details of its own nuclear programme.” Rounding out the list of the top 10 press censors was Equatorial Guinea, Uzbekistan, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Belarus.
Eritrea has surpassed North Korea as the world’s top press censor, with Syria and Iran placing third and fourth in a new list published on Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New York-based rights group said Eritrea had climbed to the top of the list by banning all foreign media and controlling every detail of the local media’s coverage through its information ministry. Syria has ratcheted up press restrictions since the outbreak of a popular revolt against President Bashar al-Assad a year ago, leaping from ninth on the CPJ’s 2006 list to third in the latest one. Iran has “mixed high-technology techniques such as Web blocking with brute-force tactics such as mass imprisonment of journalists to control the flow of information and obfuscate details of its own nuclear programme.” Rounding out the list of the top 10 press censors was Equatorial Guinea, Uzbekistan, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Belarus.
