France, June 20 -- According to monitoring organisation Article 19, more than two-thirds of the world's population has less freedom of expression than a decade ago.RFI spoke with the NGO's senior director David Diaz-Jogeix about the results of its report.
More than 5.6 billion people have experienced "a decline in their freedom of expression over the last 10 years," according to Article 19, which published its annual Global Expression Report this week.
Scores have dropped in 77 countries, with only 35 now ranked as "open".
According to the report, just 4 percent of the world's total population - fewer than 300 million people - across 15 countries have seen an improvement in freedom of expression over the last decade.
For every one perso...