Spain has experienced a six-position drop compared to last year in the index compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders, placing it in 29th place, according to data released today. Its score allows it to be part of the group of countries where "the situation is rather good," according to the NGO. However, Reporters Without Borders points out that the country has several weaknesses regarding press freedom, such as chronic job insecurity, an increase in abusive legal actions against journalists as a mechanism of intimidation, polarization, and the emergence of far-right agitators who harass media professionals. In this regard, the report indicates that digital violence primarily affects women journalists, who are the ones who receive the most intense, systematic, and personalized attacks. Finally, the organization reproaches Pedro Sánchez's government for not having been able to advance in the repeal of the most controversial aspects of the "gag law".

“Everyone saw what was coming,” Tom Grundy, editor-in-chief and founder of Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP)—the last major independent daily still holding out in the city—told the ARA. Grundy is referring to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, who was sentenced this Monday to twenty years in prison for violating the National Security Law imposed by Beijing in 2020.

Catalan political prisoners have also reached the White House, at least as far as the report on the situation of human rights in the world that the US State Department published this Tuesday. Without taking a position at any time, the US administration collects all the times that supranational organisations have condemned the situation of political prisoners and have called for their freedom. Specifically, the White House dedicates a section of the report specifically to "political prisoners and detainees", where it recalls that the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for the release of "seven of the nine pro-independence Catalan prisoners" for their role in "the referendum" of October 1, 2017. These events date back to July 2019, when the group called the pre-trial detention of Oriol Junqueras, Quim Forn, Raül Romeva, Josep Rull, Dolors Bassa, Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart "arbitrary" and called for their "immediate release". Then there was still no sentence and all were in custody (Carme Forcadell and Jordi Turull did not ask for a position on their situation).