Data | State of press freedom in India
The Hindu
Journalist Rana Ayyub was stopped from leaving the country by immigration officials on Tuesday. The issue has put a spotlight on the deteriorating press freedom in India
Journalist Rana Ayyub was stopped by immigration officials at Mumbai airport on Tuesday while she was on her way to board a flight to London. The officials stopped her on the basis of a Look-out circular issued by the Enforcement Directorate as she allegedly failed to comply with the agency’s summons. Ms. Ayyub, in a tweet, explained that she was stopped while she was going to board her flight to deliver a speech on the intimidation of journalists with International Center for Journalists. Posting a subsequent tweet, she said these events “have been planned and publicised all over my social media for weeks. Yet, curiously the Enforcement directorate summon arrived in my mail much after I was stopped at the immigration. What do you fear?”. The issue has put a spotlight on the deteriorating press freedom in India
The chart shows the press freedom rank and index of select countries in 2021. India was ranked 142 of the 180 nations analysed, lower than Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan
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The chart shows India’s rank in world press freedom index in the last nine years. While India has been ranking consistently low in the past few years, it seems to be worsening with each year
The chart shows the number of journalists imprisoned/killed in India between 1992 and 2021. In 2021, seven journalists were imprisoned, which is the highest number in almost the last three decades
India’s score of 66 on the citizens’ political rights and civil liberties indicator (represented by freedom score 2019, horizontal axis) was relatively high. However, the country’s press freedom index score (vertical axis) of 46.56 was relatively low. In India, the freedom of journalists seems to be more curtailed than the freedom of citizens. Only a few other countries have this distinction
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters without Borders
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