Freedom of the Press: Mauritius Flips in Classification of Reporters Without Borders

11 years, 2 months ago - January 31, 2013

Mauritius fell sharply in the ranking of press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The country slips a stroke of eight places to hit the 62nd position.

After trying to straighten the slope in the ranking of Reporters Without Borders in 2012, Mauritius back again from the 54th to the 62nd.Last year, the country had rebounded, according to the international organization Reporters Without Borders. In his report just released on Wednesday 30 January, RSF does not explain, however, why this collapse of Mauritius.

The country is further away from his 25th place occupied there five years ago.

In contrast, the continent other countries have made remarkable progress in the classification RSF, including Namibia ranked 25th. This makes it the first country in Africa in terms of press freedom. We then discovered the Cape Verde (25th), Niger (43 e), Ghana (30th) and South Africa (52).

Eritrea is the worst student closes the ranking at the 179th place.

The Union of Press employees (USEP) estimates, in a statement, that this classification is "distressing" for Mauritius. For the USEP "persistent attacks against the Prime Minister's press, and the issuance of an order (enduring) of the Court banned the press to talk about one aspect of a case in the news and the prison sentence of a journalist for criticizing the Supreme Court, "are some of the reasons for this decline.

Text by lexpress.mu

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