{"id":11712,"date":"2025-05-04T03:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T23:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2025-05-04T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T23:24:12","slug":"guterres-silencing-journalists-is-silencing-the-voices-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/guterres-silencing-journalists-is-silencing-the-voices-of-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Guterres: Silencing journalists is silencing the voices of the people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11713\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Gotrish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has released a video message emphasizing the importance of freedom of expression and the role of journalists in society, saying: \u201cWhen journalists cannot work, we all suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Noting that freedom of expression is a vital foundation of democracy and human rights, Guterres added: \u201cJournalists must be able to carry out their work of reporting without fear. Silencing journalists means silencing the voices of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The UN Secretary-General\u2019s remarks come as Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern in its latest report about the dire situation of the media in the world, especially in crisis-hit countries such as Afghanistan. The organization has announced that journalists face serious economic, security and even life-threatening threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has released a video message emphasizing the importance of freedom of expression and the role of journalists in society, saying: \u201cWhen journalists cannot work, we all suffer.\u201d Noting that freedom of expression is a vital foundation of democracy and human rights, Guterres added: \u201cJournalists must be able to carry out their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11715,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions\/11715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}