{"id":40526,"date":"2025-05-03T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/it-is-safe-for-me-to-write-this-article-and-for-you-to-read-it-but-globally-those-rights-are-under-grave-threat-antonio-zappulla\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:36:03","slug":"it-is-safe-for-me-to-write-this-article-and-for-you-to-read-it-but-globally-those-rights-are-under-grave-threat-antonio-zappulla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/it-is-safe-for-me-to-write-this-article-and-for-you-to-read-it-but-globally-those-rights-are-under-grave-threat-antonio-zappulla\/","title":{"rendered":"It is safe for me to write this article \u2013 and for you to read it. But globally, those rights are under grave threat | Antonio Zappulla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The act of labelling journalists \u2018foreign agents\u2019 is deliberately chilling. On World Press Freedom Day, be aware of the peril involved in seeking the truth<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Georgian president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/14\/georgias-ruling-party-to-appoint-far-right-loyalist-as-president\">Mikheil Kavelashvili<\/a> approved a new law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\/news\/georgian-parliament-passes-controversial-foreign-agents-law-raising-crackdown-fears\">inflicting criminal charges<\/a>, including prison sentences and fines, on any organisation or individual who fails to comply with the country\u2019s \u201cforeign influence\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>The news didn\u2019t trouble the front pages of the international press and went largely unnoticed, but it marks a significant inflection point in the decline of global press freedom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/03\/world-press-freedom-day-rights-journalists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act of labelling journalists \u2018foreign agents\u2019 is deliberately chilling. On World Press Freedom Day, be aware of the peril involved in seeking the truth Last month, Georgian president Mikheil Kavelashvili approved a new law inflicting criminal charges, including prison sentences and fines, on any organisation or individual who fails to comply with the country\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"It is safe for me to write this article \u2013 and for you to read it. But globally, those rights are under grave threat | Antonio Zappulla\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/it-is-safe-for-me-to-write-this-article-and-for-you-to-read-it-but-globally-those-rights-are-under-grave-threat-antonio-zappulla\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about It is safe for me to write this article \u2013 and for you to read it. But globally, those rights are under grave threat | Antonio Zappulla\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}