This is the first time that the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – or any other UN mechanism receiving…
International Media News
53 NGOs urge the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression and on…
In the cities of Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, military and police forces were heavily deployed and fired gunshots in some neighborhoods…
Muhammad Bekjanov – an Uzbek journalist who tried to initiate debate on taboo subjects such as the use of forced…
After Deyda Hydara’s murder in 2004, the state opened an investigation which was closed in less than a month. No…
On December 12, 42 year-old Algerian journalist and blogger Mohammad Tamalt was laid to rest in the capital Algiers. Tamalt…
Euro Lobo, the head of press for the mayor's office of Mérida told IPYS Venezuela that he was ambushed at…
On 14 December, telecom companies received a letter from the Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority instructing them to block access…
High levels of revenue and ownership concentration in the media sector pose a threat to freedom of information in Peru….
Why adopt such a law as the November 2016 Cybersecurity Law, especially when heavy-handed restrictions already existed for users and…