The red dots indicate situations where a journalist has been threatened. The map was created by the Index on Censorship, which was created to study censorship in Europe initially. It was developed because violence against journalists seems to have increased in the European Union (EU), which espouses free speech in its charter and whose countries guarantee freedom of expression as a basic human right in their national laws. Thus far, Index has verified 276 cases of violence or threats of violence to journalists in the EU. The country most cited is Serbia with 33, but Turkey and Hungary are not far behind.
Some examples:
- Police seized reporters’ hardware in the UK
- Muslims threatened to behead a Kosovar journalist
- A French reporter was blocked by the far right Front National Party from attending a rally
- A Serbian editor was beaten—twice—with a baseball bat.
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