An annual report on press freedom in China published this week by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has slammed the deteriorating situation for journalists working in China, and highlighted the increasingly active role mainland authorities are taking to exert influence on the press in Hong Kong and Macau.

“The state of press freedom and freedom of expression in China in 2014 was deplorable,” IFJ Asia-Pacific said in its report, “China’s Media War: Censorship, Corruption and Control.”

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