Freedom House

Freedom House said the repressive legislation was drafted in secret and published just an hour before taking effect.

Freedom House said many provisions in the proposed law would endanger democracy advocates, civic activists, and journalists, as well as many members of religious and ethnic minority groups in Hong Kong.

Despite China’s notorious censorship regime, netizens have found ingenious ways to share COVID-19 information, organize help during the lockdown, and express outrage over the government’s handling of the crisis.

Freedom House identified the Chinese government as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom.

An international mission comprised of 17 international organizations underscores its concern regarding the lack of guarantees offered by the Mexican state to solve the country’s grave freedom of expression crisis and the state’s failure to recognize the seriousness of the problem.

“On social media, propaganda works better than censorship… Authoritarians around the globe are exploiting both human nature and computer algorithms to conquer the ballot box, running roughshod over rules designed to ensure free and fair elections”.

China detained three staff members with a disability rights NGO on charges of “subversion”, and sentenced citizen journalist Huang Qi to 12 years in prison for “leaking state secrets”.

New tactics aimed at throttling media independence include government-backed ownership changes, regulatory and financial pressure, preferential access for government-friendly press, and public denunciations of honest journalists.