It was the saddest way to begin the week in the lead-up to World Press Freedom Day. On Thursday, the 25th anniversary of the first World Press Freedom Day, UNESCO will mark the event at a ceremony in Accra, Ghana. The Chinese Communist Party is marking World Press Freedom week by unveiling a raft of new police-state measures aimed at tightening its chokehold around the throats of China’s online news sources. The three regimes account for fully half of the 262 journalists the Committee to Protect Journalists identified behind bars in 2017. The world’s worst enemies of press freedom should be expected to get away with it for the foreseeable future, sad to say.

Source: National Post May 02, 2018 15:57 UTC