Term Paper #4 - Legal Constraints on International Journalists
According to the 2025 World Press Freedom Index created by Reporters without Borders "more than half of the world's population lives in a country where press freedom is in a "very serious" situation- that's 4.25 billion people in 42 countries now marked bright red on the Index's map." As citizens of the United States, we are blessed with the certain freedoms that other countries do not have. Ranked 57th out of 180 countries on the index the United States is fairly tolerable of press freedom. One country that is nowhere near as tolerable of press freedom is Sudan. Surrounded by other countries that have been marked red by the index such as Egypt, Eritrea, and Ethiopia the country of Sudan has been listed as number 156 out of the 180 countries. According to Reporters Without Borders "The military coup of 25 October 2021 marked the return of information control and censorship." Since the fighting began between th...
