Across Mexico, reporters are vanishing
amid an escalating conflict between
the government and drug lords. The
Chinese government censors the Internet
and harasses journalists during the Olympic
Games, breaking its promise to promote
free and open media. While Iraq remains
the world’s most dangerous place for the
press, a short but brutal conflict in the
breakaway regions of Georgia also claims
the lives of reporters and photographers.
Attacks on the Press in 2008 offers factual and unbiased analyses
of press conditions in 120 countries, while offering a
behind-the-curtain look at how the international press survives—
and thrives. Critical journalists continue to be
imprisoned in countries such as Cuba, Tunisia, and Azerbaijan.
Yet governments are struggling to silence bloggers who are
reaching growing audiences throughout the Middle East and
Asia. In Africa, a more vocal and technologically savvy press is
successfully fighting official harassment.
The world’s most comprehensive guide to international press
freedom, Attacks on the Press is compiled annually by the
Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit
organization.