[...] In the Middle East and North Africa, the situation is “very serious” in nearly half of the countries. The United Arab Emirates joins the eight other countries in the red zone on the map: Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Palestine, Iraq, Bahrain, Syria and Egypt. Palestine, occupied and under bombardment by the Israeli army, and the deadliest country for journalists, is also at the bottom of the Index. Qatar is now the region’s only country where the situation is not classified either as “difficult” or “very serious.”
[...] Occupied and under constant Israeli bombardment, Palestine is ranked 157th out of 180 countries and territories surveyed in the overall 2024 World Press Freedom Index, but it is ranked among the last 10 with regard to security for journalists (see the 2024 World Press Freedom Index security ranking).
@faab64@oatmeal Not to defend the index or anything, but as a partial explanation for counterintuitive rankings: the legislative environment is only one of the dimensions.
@bifouba@oatmeal Well, Iran has more position than Oman or Jordan, I honestly don't understand how this freedom index puts those totalitarian regimes not red, the same with Ukraine since their latest law that literally removed all citizen's rights in the time of war.