Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Four major threats to press freedom in the UK

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par William Horsley, International Director, Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM), University of Sheffield

Just five years ago, the UK took the bold step of setting up a Media Freedom Coalition of 50 countries committed to protecting press freedom against its enemies in authoritarian states around the world.

But at home, journalists have been squeezed between new waves of restrictive legislation and a general decline in public trust in institutions, including traditional media. Barrister Geoffrey Robertson KC has written scathingly that UK law is “antipathetic…

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