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2016. április 21./Phayul.com/TibetPress

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By Tenzin Monlam

DHARAMSHALA, April 21: The Paris-based NGO, Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) or Reporters Without Borders, ranked China (176th) the fourth worst country for journalists, with a dipping score of 80.96 from last year’s 73.55.

“As well as building a Great Firewall to monitor and control blogs and social networks, the Communist Party exercises total control over China’s many media outlets. Independent journalists such as Gao Yu are harassed and jailed,” RSF said in its annual World Press Freedom Index on Wednesday.

Specifically pointing out Chinese President Xi Jinping on their list of predators of press freedom, the RSF said, “Making unauthorized criticisms is one of the many bans to which journalists are subjected to. It reinforces an already formidable arsenal that includes the state secrets law and the criminal code.”

The report also stated that the Communist Party took repression to new heights with journalists subjected to abductions, televised forced confessions and threats to relatives, among others.

Moreover, the organization expressed its concern over press freedom in the Asia-Pacific region, which holds all the records with the world’s biggest prisons for journalists and bloggers, especially in China and Vietnam.

While registering ‘deep and disturbing decline in respect for media freedom at both the global and regional levels’, RSF reasons that it may be due to increasing authoritarian tendencies of governments in countries such as Turkey and Egypt, tighter government control of state-owned media.

“The survival of independent news coverage is becoming increasingly precarious in both the state and privately-owned media because of the threat from ideologies, especially religious ideologies, that are hostile to media freedom, and from large-scale propaganda machines,” the organization said.

The index published annually by RSF since 2002 measures the level of freedom available to journalists in 180 countries using the following criteria – pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative environment, transparency, infrastructure and abuse.