Annual Press Freedom Review 2021 of RSF

6 January 2022. On 14 December, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) presented its annual Press Freedom Review 2021.

“The number of journalists arbitrarily imprisoned has never been as high as this year,” says RSF Germany-Executive Director Christian Mihr. Worldwide, 488 media workers are imprisoned for their work, 212 of them in China, Myanmar and Belarus. 65 are currently considered kidnapped. But there is also “good news”: With 46, the number of media workers killed is the lowest in almost 20 years.

Read the full report here.