The world’s journalists are facing an unprecedented wave of repression. Governments across continents are intensifying crackdowns on media outlets, targeting reporters with arrests, intimidation, and censorship. The rise in journalist jailings near record highs underscores a disturbing global trend: truth is being silenced, and the free flow of information is under siege.
Human rights organizations warn that these actions threaten not only individual journalists but the very foundation of democracy. Independent reporting is being stifled, investigative journalism is at risk, and societies worldwide are losing critical voices that hold power to account. As the crackdown deepens, the call for global solidarity in protecting press freedom has never been more urgent.
