Liberian minister threatens editor (Demo)

From Eskinder Nega's release, a landmark ECOWAS judgment and a legal challenge in support of LGBTQI+ rights, to internet shutdowns…

A UN official who recently visited Saudi Arabia has criticised the country's use of its terrorism tribunal and counterterrorism law…

This statement was originally published on article19.org on 12 May 2020. If passed, a provision in the proposed Prevention and…

Around 30 journalists and citizen-journalists have been summoned, questioned or arrested in the past few weeks. Source: MEDIA FEED

Gulistan Mohammad and Ibrahim al-Ahmed were shot while covering the effects of Turkey's shelling of the northern Syrian city of…

Days before general elections scheduled for 19 February, a makeshift explosive device was sent to award-winning TV journalist Janet Hinostroza….

This statement was originally published on advox.globalvoices.org on 6 September 2018. Source: MEDIA FEED

This statement was originally published on pen.org on 19 May 2020. Amid global retrenchment on human rights and fundamental freedoms…

Journalists in Mozambique released, democracy undermined as Beninese head to polls, Bobi Wine in court, innovative ideas to tackle disinformation…

The fall of a 61-year old regime at the ballot box offers a chance for real reforms for media and…

This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 17 December 2019. The Israeli army has deprived generations of Palestinians in…

Journalists Ragıp Duran and Ayşe Düzkan were convicted of "propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization," namely the outlawed Kurdistan…

The Public Prosecution held its annual press conference in Muscat, Oman, during which it threatened Internet activists, who are engaged…

Husain Abdulla, Executive Director of Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), speaks to IFEX about impunity in…

Regrettably, GCHR can only report on the very bleak conditions for the media in general and journalists in the region….