自由之家:全球新聞自由度降至十年最低點

Global press freedom declined last year to its lowest level in more than a decade, according to a report issued Wednesday by an international human rights monitoring organization.

Freedom House's annual survey said journalists across the world face restrictions placed on them by forces including authoritarian governments, terrorists and media owners with business interests.

The worst offenders on the organization's ranking of 199 nations or territories were North Korea, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Cuba, Syria, Iran and Crimea. Norway, Sweden and Belgium topped the list.

Overall, Freedom House says just 14 percent of the world's population lives in free countries "where coverage of political news is robust, the safety of journalists is guaranteed, state intrusion in media affairs is minimal, and the press is not subject to onerous legal or economic pressures."一個國際人權監督組織星期三發表報告說，去年全球新聞自由度降至10多年來的最低點。

自由之家發表的年度報道說，世界各地的新聞記者面臨各種勢力施加的限制，包括專制政府、恐怖分子以及有商業利益的媒體所有者。

自由之家對199個國家和地區的新聞自由度進行了排名，最差的國家和地區是朝鮮、烏茲別克斯坦、土庫曼斯坦、白俄羅斯、古巴、敘利亞、伊朗和克里米亞。最好的國家是挪威、瑞典和比利時。

自由之家說，總體而言，世界上只有14%的人生活在自由國家：“這些國家裏記者可以充分報道政治消息，記者的安全得到保障，國家對媒體事務只做最低程度的干預，而且媒體不會受到強大的法律和經濟壓力。”