This year brought no shortage of other examples. Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam was jailed for more than 100 days for making “false” and “provocative” statements after criticizing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in an interview about mass protests in Dhaka

‘Free speech is very much under pressure,’ says Alam. ‘I am not aware of a government that does not promote freedom in its rhetoric and actively oppose it in its practice.’