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Governments around the world are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to justify, or divert attention, from the crackdown on press freedom.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai was arrested in Hong Kong earlier in August while police were enforcing a new national security law. In June, journalist Maria Ressa was convicted of “cyber-defamation” in the Philippines. In Egypt, at least 12 hounds have been arrested this year. under legislation that opposes the “dissemination of misinformation” related to coronavirus.
In some cases, regimes have acted to curb alleged misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic that does not correspond to official proclamations regarding its spread or severity; in others, the pandemic serves as a distraction by diverting national attention from those incidents.
Egypt, for example, has imprisoned young hounds such as Nora Younis, editor-in-chief of the al-Manassa news agency, who, according to the International Press Institute, was arrested on 24 June. nine cases opposed to Russians accused of spreading “false information” on social media and via messaging apps, and at least 3 of them received significant fines.
The IPI has been tracking violations of press freedom since the start of the pandemic. Repression includes arrests and charges, restrictions on data access, censorship, maximum regulation of false data, and physical attacks.
Incomplete figures make it difficult to say that these measures are on the rise. At least 17 countries, in addition to Hungary, Russia, the Philippines and Vietnam, have enacted new legislation designed to combat coronavirus misinformation, according to an IPI account. The measures were used as pretexts to impose fines or imprisonment on hounds who criticize the government, the organization said.
In Hungary, for example, Prime Minister Viktor Orban passed a coronavirus law that can mean up to five years of criminality on false data. Russia may fine others with up to $25,000 or imcriminate them for five years if they are deemed to have spread falsely. data about the virus. The media can be fined up to $127,000, according to the IPI.
The Committee to Protect Journalists traced 163 coronavirus-like violations of press freedom this year until July 29. The organization says their knowledge is not complete. The IPI traced 421 virus-like violations, adding arrests, censorship, on the superior regulation of “fake news. “”and physical or verbal attacks.
“We are witnessing an ongoing crackdown on the press that is aggravated by the coronavirus,” said Courtney Radsch, CPJ’s director of defense.
Even incidents unrelated to alleged incorrect information about the pandemic would possibly escape additional attention amid the avalanche of coronavirus news. Jimmy Lai’s arrest in Hong Kong, for example, soon followed the enactment of a new national security law that provides China with more strength to weigh. Lai runs Apple Daily, a combative for-democracy tabloid who criticizes the government led through the Chinese Communist Party.
The defamation convictions of Ressa and some other journalist were also not similar to COVID-19, but Radsch said the pandemic can serve as a distraction for those cases that might otherwise have attracted more foreign attention.
“There’s a lot less attention to a lot of that because other people are just stuck in other news,” he said. “It’s hard to get out of the jam to raise public considerations and considerations about repression. “
This has been exacerbated by the lack of a physically powerful American reaction, President Donald Trump, experts said.
“In the pre-Trump era, the United States would obviously advocate for press freedom and independent media around the world,” said David Kaye, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine and former UN special rapporteur on freedom. expression . . . Trump calls the conventional press “fake news. “
While the Trump administration has sanctioned Chinese officials, adding Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam for Lai’s arrest, his classic rhetoric in favor of the Lax press has failed. “We see the company’s condemnation that we would expect from the United States for repression. “freedom of the press or the death of the detained hounds, ” said Radsch. It is possible that the management has also done more for Ressa, he said, because he has U. S. and Filipino citizenship.
“We haven’t noticed a physically powerful call at the point for the charges to be dropped,” he said. “It’s not what we expect. “
The United States intervenes from time to time. For example, U. S. negotiators have been actively negotiating with Austin Tice, a Houston journalist and veteran detained in Syria, but this is a rare exception.
Kaye said the repression of the developing media is a direct result of the global rise of authoritarian government.
“The government and populists of recent years have been elected to power,” he said. “There has been tension in the independent media, it has changed and it has happened in parallel before and in coVID. “
The pandemic “added a new vector of repression,” he said. “There is a continuing repression and a COVID-oriented offensive that is new. “
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