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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jason Burke International security correspondent

Global press freedom suffers sharpest fall in 50 years, report finds

Journalists hold up signs that say: 'No press, no truth'
Journalists demonstrated outside the EFE news agency offices in Bogotá, Colombia, earlier this month to denounce the killing of journalists in Gaza. Photograph: Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda/EPA

Press freedom around the world has suffered its sharpest fall in 50 years as global democracy weakens dramatically, a landmark report has found.

According to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), democracy has declined in 94 countries over the last five years and only a third have made progress.

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