世界の報道の自由度 日本５９位へ後退 「国境なき記者団」発表 （ノーボーダー）
パリに本部を置くジャーナリストの非政府組織「国境なき記者団」は、きょう（12日）、今年度の報道の自由度ランキングを発表した。
昨年、大きく順位を落とした日本は、さらにボツワナ、ハイチ、韓国より下位の５９位までランキングを後退させた。
国境なき記者団は、「世界に類を見ない記者クラブシステム、東京電力福島第１原発事故後の情報隠蔽、特定秘密保護法の成立などが影響した」と説明している。
なお「NO BORDER」は国境なき記者団に協力を続けている。
以下、国境なき記者団HPより（キーワードよりURLリンク）
[ Arrests, home searched, interrogation by the domestic intelligence agency and threats of judicial proceedings – who would have thought that covering the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster would have involved so many risks for Japan’s freelance journalists? The discrimination against freelance and foreign reporters resulting from Japan’s unique system of Kisha clubs, whose members are the only journalists to be granted government accreditation, has increased since Fukushima.
Often barred from press conferences given by the government and TEPCO (the Fukushima nuclear plant’s owner), denied access to the information available to the mainstream media (which censor themselves), freelancers have their hands tied in their fight to cover Japan’s nuclear industrial complex, known as the “nuclear village.” Now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has tightened the legislation on “state secrets,” their fight will get even more dangerous]
