“All over the world, journalists who are threatened or endangered in connection with their work are forced to flee abroad in search of refuge. Based on data provided by RSF’s Assistance Desk and information gathered during the past five years by RSF’s bureaux, the exile journalists map shows that this is a global phenomenon. Each continent produces its flow of journalists fleeing abroad, who mainly find refuge in Europe and North America.
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The decision to flee abroad is not always an individual one. As a result of the increasing authoritarianism of Daniel Ortega’s government in Nicaragua, all of the journalists working for the independent daily La Prensa fled the country within the space of a few weeks in July 2022. Most of them went to neighboring Costa Rica, where several exile news outlets are now based. Spain and the United States are also countries of refuge for hundreds of Venezuelan, Cuban and Central American journalists.”
