11 Worst Countries for Journalists in 2015

5. Iran

Score – 18

Iran is one of the countries where freedom of speech isn’t exactly guaranteed for most of the population. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the media is being censored either. On the list of the countries where the press is most censored, Iran ranked seventh. To put it in short, mass detentions for journalists aren’t out of ordinary and neither is intimidating everyone to write state-approved messages. Not too long ago, Iran was the country that jailed the most journalists and it’s not doing that much better nowadays either.

On the chart indicating the countries with the most and the least freedom for the press, Iran ranked 173^rd out of a total of 180 countries.

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