Journalists Ensnared by National Security Legislation

As security – rather than protecting rights and freedoms – becomes the top priority of governments worldwide, laws have increasingly been used to obstruct the work of media professionals in the 35 countries that are in or affiliated with the European Union. Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project, which monitors violations against media professionals in 43 countries, has received 269 reports of cases where national laws in the EU35 have been obstacles to media freedom between 2014 and 2018. Mapping Media Freedom’s data highlights that the misuse of national security legislation to silence government critics is growing over the years. Read more here.

Source: Mapping Media Freedom