11 Worst Countries for Journalists in 2015

2. China

Score – 22

China is such an advanced country in many areas and yet lags behind badly in others. In an effort to keep the population loyal to the leaders, China’s imposed censorship does much of the work. The country landed on the eighth place among the world’s nations with the highest censorship levels. There’s a body of the Chinese government that monitors all media and seeks to combat several political perils and to keep the population away from the Western values regarding media. Seeing as how the Internet is also heavily censored and the local social media outlets monitored closely, there’s little place for the people to get their information from.

In the World Press Freedom Index, China landed on the 176^th spot, being overtaken only by Syria, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea.

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