India falls eight positions to one hundred and fiftieth rank in RSF 2022 World Press Freedom Index
The rating of India's neighbours, besides that of Nepal, have additionally slid down, with the index putting Pakistan at 157th role, Sri Lanka 146th, Bangladesh 162nd and Maynmar at 176th role, the file launched with the aid of using Reporters Without Borders stated.
India's rating withinside the World Press Freedom Index has fallen right all the way down to one hundred and fiftieth role from final year's 142nd rank out of one hundred eighty international locations, in keeping with a file with the aid of using a worldwide media watchdog launched on Tuesday.
The rating of India's neighbours, besides that of Nepal, have additionally slid down, with the index putting Pakistan at 157th role, Sri Lanka 146th, Bangladesh 162nd and Maynmar at 176th role, the file launched with the aid of using Reporters Without Borders stated.
According to the RSF 2022 World Press Freedom Index, Nepal has climbed up with the aid of using 30 factors withinside the worldwide rating at 76th role. Last year, the Himalayan state have been located at 106th role, Pakistan at 145th, Sri Lanka 127th, Bangladesh 152nd and Myanmar at one hundred and fortieth role withinside the index.
This year, Norway (1st) Denmark (2nd), Sweden (3rd) Estonia (4th) and Finland (5th) grabbed the pinnacle positions, whilst North Korea remained at the lowest of the listing of the one hundred eighty international locations and territories ranked with the aid of using the Reporters Without Borders.
Russia changed into located at a hundred and fifty fifth role, down from one hundred and fiftieth final year, whilst China climbed up with the aid of using positions with the Reporters Without Borders putting it at a hundred and seventy fifth role. Last year, China changed into located at 177th role.
"On the World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders and 9 different human rights enterprises ask Indian government to forestall focused on reporters and on line critics for his or her work," the worldwide non-earnings organization stated in a declaration on its website.
"More specifically, they have to forestall prosecuting them below counterterrorism and sedition legal guidelines," it added.
The Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) stated the Indian government have to admire the proper to freedom of expression and launch any reporters detained on trumped-up or politically influenced prices for his or her essential reporting and forestall focused on them and muzzling unbiased media.
"The government’ focused on of reporters coupled with a broader crackdown on dissent has emboldened Hindu nationalists to threaten, harass and abuse reporters essential of the Indian authorities, each on line and offline, with impunity," it stated.
“The government have to additionally behavior prompt, thorough, unbiased and unbiased investigations into allegations of threats and assaults focused on reporters and critics, consisting of from authorities officials,” the RSF stated, adding, “reporters have to now no longer ought to threat their freedom and their lives to do their work.”
About the worldwide scenario, the RSF stated the 20 th World Press Freedom Index exhibits a -fold growth in "polarisation" amplified with the aid of using records chaos, that is, media polarisation fuelling divisions inside international locations, in addition to polarisation among international locations on the worldwide level.
Reacting to the RSF 2022 World Press Freedom Index, 3 Indian reporters our bodies stated in a joint declaration, "While the process insecurities have grown so have the assaults on press freedoms visible an exponential rise. India does now no longer fare too properly on this regard, rating a hundred and fifty out of one hundred eighty international locations withinside the World Press Freedom Index compiled with the aid of using RSF.
"Journalists had been incarcerated below draconian legal guidelines for flimsy motives and on a few activities confronted danger to their lives as properly from self-styled custodians of regulation withinside the social media space," the Indian Women's Press Corps, Press Club of India and Press Association added.
Noting that freedom of press is quintessential to the functioning of a colourful democracy, they stated the media has to return back together "to reclaim its position toward realisation of this objective".
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