Recent years have seen an increasing number of governments stifle freedom of the press, engage in democratic backsliding and scapegoat religious and ethnic minorities, practices that have led to an increase in atrocity crimes. According to Freedom House, of the 41 established democracies that were ranked free from 1985 to 2005, 22 have registered net democratic decline in the last
five years. In Russia, more journalists are in jail than at any time since the fall of the Soviet Union, human rights NGOs have been declared foreign agents and
independent media have been wiped out. China continues to persecute the
Uighur Muslim minority, and has installed an Orwellian
social credit system that ranks people based on behaviour.
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