– Kashmiri newspaper editor Syed Shujaat Bukhari gunned down (Demo)

Land rights activist Tep Vanny has now spent one year in prison for peaceful protests. Send her a personal message…

September in the Asia-Pacific region: Protests in Burma, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and West Papua; anti-Fake News Act in Malaysia, Digital Security…

Staff from national broadcaster, Televisão da Guiné-Bissau, began a partial strike to protest political meddling and are demanding an end…

A leading community radio station, Radio Mbari, has been forced to close after being threatened by armed groups in the…

While Kyrgyzstan has generally been a rare positive example in a region where autocracy has been the rule, recent developments…

This statement was originally published on gc4hr.org on 14 October 2019. The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses its…

14 newspaper staff handed prison sentences of between 2 years and 6 months and 7 years and 6 months. Source:…

In responding to a fellow cleric during a radio interview, a pastor lost his temper, insulted and abused the interviewer…

The IFJ said: "We demand the immediate release of Swe and Naing and call for the charges to be dropped….

This statement was originally published on freedomforum.org.np on 13 June 2019. Freedom Forum is concerned over the alarming rise in…

Obaid Al-Zaabi, now 60 years old, spent four years in prison since his arrest in December 2013. Source: MEDIA FEED

Citizens express outrage at the Liberian government's decision to suspend media operating licences and authorisations issued this year. Source: MEDIA…

Although August is traditionally associated with taking some time off, no-one appears to have informed Europe's worst rights abusers: they…

This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 2 October 2019. A Russian military court today sentenced activist and blogger…

This statement was originally published on ipi.media on 25 June 2020. Journalists in Russia reporting on the authorities’ handling of…