Here Are the 10 ‘Most Urgent’ Threats to Press Freedom Around the World
Azory Gwanda, a freelance journalist who has been missing in Tanzania since November 2017, remains at the top of a list of the 10 most severe threats to press freedom around the globe. Gwanda had been investigating mysterious killings when he disappeared nearly two years ago.
The list — updated monthly by the One Free Press Coalition, which was founded by a dozen news organizations, including TIME, with the goal of defending journalists under attack — identifies the 10 most urgent cases threatening press freedom around the world.
Last year, TIME named The Guardians the 2018 Person of the Year, recognizing four journalists and one news organization for their work in the face of a “war on truth.”
Two of those journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo — who appeared on the 10 Most Urgent list previously and won a Pulitzer Prize in April— were pardoned and released from prison in Myanmar in early May. The two Reuters reporters had been sentenced in September to seven years in prison after re..