Press freedom predator
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Press freedom predator is an anti-award distributed every few years by Reporters Without Borders.[1] It is attributed to heads of state or groups who are deemed to have a negative effect on press freedom.[2]
Recipients often vehemently deny that they deserve their place on the list.[3] In 2020, Reporters Without Borders also released a list of 20 press freedom’s digital predators.[4]
2021 press freedom predators[]
Viktor Orbán
Carrie Lam
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt[5]
- Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus[5]
- Ali Khamenei, Iran[5]
- Bashar al-Assad, Syria[5]
- Carrie Lam, Hong Kong[5]
- Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua[5]
- Emomali Rahmon, Tajikistan[5]
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka[5]
- Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmenistan[5]
- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahrain[5]
- Hun Sen, Cambodia[5]
- Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan[5]
- Imran Khan, Pakistan[5]
- Isaias Afwerki, Eritrea[5]
- Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Djibouti[5]
- Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil[5]
- Kim Jong-un, North Korea[5]
- Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore[5]
- Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba[5]
- Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar[5]
- Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia[5]
- Narendra Modi, India[5]
- Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnam[5]
- Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela[5]
- Paul Biya, Cameroon[5]
- Paul Kagame, Rwanda[5]
- Prayut Chan-o-cha, Thailand[5]
- Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia[5]
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey[5]
- Rodrigo Duterte, Philippines[5]
- Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudan[5]
- Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh[5]
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea[5]
- Viktor Orbán, Hungary[5]
- Vladimir Putin, Russia[5]
- Xi Jinping, People's Republic of China[5]
- Yoweri Museveni, Uganda[5]
2016 press freedom predators[]
Omar al-Bashir
Yahya Jammeh
Xi Jinping
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt[6]
- Al-Shabaab, Somalia[6]
- Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus[6]
- Ali Khamenei, Iran[6]
- Ansar Allah, Yemen[6]
- Ansarullah Bangla Team, Bangladesh[6]
- Bashar al-Assad, Syria[6]
- Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmenistan[6]
- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahrain[6]
- Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan[6]
- Isaias Afwerki, Eritrea[6]
- Islamic State, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya[6]
- Joseph Kabila, Democratic Republic of the Congo[6]
- Kim Jong-un, North Korea[6]
- Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore[6]
- Los Zetas, Mexico[6]
- Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnam[6]
- Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela[6]
- Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan[6]
- Omar al-Bashir, Sudan[6]
- Pakistan’s intelligence agencies, especially Inter-Services Intelligence[6]
- Paul Kagame, Rwanda[6]
- Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi[6]
- Prayut Chan-o-cha, Thailand[6]
- Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia[6]
- Raúl Castro, Cuba[6]
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey[6]
- Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe[6]
- Salman of Saudi Arabia[6]
- Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudan[6]
- Taliban, Afghanistan[6]
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea[6]
- Vladimir Putin, Russia[6]
- Xi Jinping, People's Republic of China[6]
- Yahya Jammeh, The Gambia[6]
References[]
- ^ "Pakistan rejects naming of PM Khan as press freedom 'predator'". www.aljazeera.com.
- ^ "Press freedom: India, Pakistan PMs among 37 world leaders on 'predators' list - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ "Baseless to include Duterte on 'press freedom predator' list". www.pna.gov.ph.
- ^ "RSF unveils 20/2020 list of press freedom's digital predators". 12 March 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak "RSF's 2021 "Press freedom predators" gallery – old tyrants, two women and a European | Reporters without borders". RSF. 2 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai "RSF issues new list of press freedom predators | Reporters without borders". RSF. 28 October 2016.
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