Criminal libel or charges of treason against journalists can impact global journalism and journalists even more profoundly, and have done so. Journalists from Bangladesh to the Maldives to Myanmar to...

Criminal libel or charges of treason against journalists can impact global journalism and journalists even more profoundly, and have done so. Journalists from Bangladesh to the Maldives to Myanmar to Iran have been threatened with jail or have been sentenced to jail for their reporting (Chisholm, South wood, Of even greater concern, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports that the killing of journalists around the world is at an all-time high.