With a record number of attacks on journalists, Brazil fell once again in the global ranking of freedom of expression released by the NGO Article 19.
The country recorded the third largest decline in the world from 2011 to 2021, according to the report released this Thursday (30). It scored 38 points on a scale of 0 to 100, behind only Hong Kong (-58 points) and Afghanistan (-40 points).
The indicator has worsened since 2016 and was accentuated in 2019, the first year of the Jair Bolsonaro government.
Until 2015, the country was at the "open" level, the best of the scale. Today, in 89th place among 160 countries, it is in the "restricted" category, the third worst among five, along with nations such as Hungary and Angola.
Leading the global ranking are Denmark and Switzerland, with 95 points, followed by Sweden and Norway, with 94. At the other extreme, Equatorial Guinea has the lowest score (4), followed by Saudi Arabia and Nicaragua, both with 3 points.
Translated by Kiratiana Freelon