RSF unveils portraits of journalists arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia (Demo)

Unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to dominate news and discussion around free expression and access to information in April. The…

There were reports that Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency officials assaulted and briefly detained journalists in Islamabad last week. Source: MEDIA…

Borodin reported on crime and corruption; he died after a fall from the balcony of his apartment. Source: MEDIA FEED

Activist Ilgar Mammadov has been released from prison after serving five years on trumped up charges of inciting violence; he…

This statement was originally published on gc4hr.org on 9 June 2020. The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the…

Abdallah Abdou Hassane and Oubeidillah Mchangama, two journalists working for critical online news outlet FCBK FM, were arrested and are…

This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 28 May 2020. Nigerian authorities should drop all charges against journalist Kufre…

Dear President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Speaker of the Kyrgyz Republic Parliament Your Excellencies, The undersigned…

Liberian President George Weah is being asked to condemn one of his ministers for threatening to have the publisher of…

This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 27 September 2019. Lebanese authorities have largely failed to comply with the…

The media is in the worst state India has ever seen. Source: MEDIA FEED

Corruption investigator Cvetkovic went missing on 13 June, prompting a massive police search operation; on 15 June, the President of…

It was a long day in court for the Istanbul 10 on 25 October 2017, but one that ended with…

The presidential election is scheduled for 23 September Source: MEDIA FEED

A Creative Commons leader in Syria who was active in projects including Mozilla Firefox and Wikipedia, Bassel Khartabil played a…