RSF issues warning about Saudi Arabia's Press Freedom Index ranking

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is issuing an “incident report” about the press freedom situation in Saudi Arabia and the threat to the country's already poor ranking in the World Press Freedom Index after dissident journalist and commentator Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and the arrests of more than 15 journalists in the space of a year. Saudi Arabia is ranked very low, 169th out of 180 countries, in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index that RSF published last April, but it will very probably fall even lower in the 2019 Index because

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