– UN prepares to examine civil and political rights in Pakistan (Demo)

More than 170 organizations from over 60 countries that make up the #KeepitOn Coalition reacted to a reported internet shutdown…

Tunisian authorities are confiscating and searching the phones of men they suspect of being gay and pressuring them to take…

This statement was originally published on afjc.af on 17 March 2020. The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) has monitored a 21%…

Writer Shaktika Sathkumara was arrested by the police for a 'disrespectful' short story. Source: MEDIA FEED

About 3,000 journalists at South Korea's public broadcasters have been on strike since September demanding editorial independence. Source: MEDIA FEED

Ethiopia's ruling coalition has announced it would release political prisoners and close the infamous Maekelawi detention centre in Addis Ababa….

In the age of digital, the media has had to adapt to the constant changes in how news is published…

The new media regulation law now in effect in Egypt imposes intolerable financial conditions on the country's last independent media…

Against the backdrop of World Press Freedom Day commemorations in Ethiopia this year, the AFEX network is reminding African governments…

Mexican journalist José Guadalupe Chan Dzib was shot and killed by an unknown assailant on 29 June, in a bar…

This is the first case involving a student protest under the government headed by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi….

This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 14 May 2020. Chinese authorities in Tibet are using a national anti-crime…

Take action to help save the life of imprisoned human rights defender and blogger Ahmed Mansoor Source: MEDIA FEED

RSF deplores the decision by Chechnya's supreme court to confirm the three-year jail sentence that the young journalist Zhalaudi Geriyev…

The COVID-19 pandemic has enabled many governments in the region to ride roughshod over civil liberties. Repressive measures were enacted…