the world teacher will use director peter dingle criticized china's blocking of investigations into the virus as origin and a free press would have really helped to to find the reason and at the end would have saved lives of china. in russia where press freedom is strictly côté old government friendly media outlets have been spreading misinformation about the corona crisis independent journalists are feeling the pressure. elena miller she no internationally renowned investigative journalist received death threats after reporting on the coronavirus in chechnya allegedly from chechen president ramzan kadyrov himself the organization reporters without borders has documented a record number of arbitrary acts of violence against reporters in venezuela dubuisson rojas was detained by special forces for 12 days for reporting on covered 1000 on social media. in countries where press freedom is already under threat the corona pandemic is making things even more difficult and more dangerous for journalists. has a roundup of some of the latest developments in the pandemic worldwide russia has reco