Filed Under (News) by Sarah Turner on 17 October 2007

Reporters without Borders has released its sixth annual report, detailing 169 countries’ press freedom.

Iceland and Norway are in joint first place, with Estonia and Slovakia in joint third, followed by Belgium, Finland and Sweden in fifth. Eritrea suffers from the most press censorship, followed by North Korea, Turkmenistan and Iran.

Sadly for countries outside Europe, the picture’s not good - all of the top 14 countries are European.

I’m not going to run through the whole report, as it’s pretty meaty, but if you are interested in finding out more about the freedom figures, the report is available at http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24025

Comments

David Kierznowski on 17 October, 2007 at 6:45 pm #

I wasn’t surprised to see North Korea at the bottom of the list. Quite a cool idea.


Farhad on 18 October, 2007 at 11:49 pm #

I’m from iran but I never heard or seen any problem with censoring Iranian Blogger inside iran except some famous & big websites not weblogs! ( Politic or Porno)!


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