The smartphone versus the baton
Summary Reflecting on events from the first half of 2021, IFEX’s Europe and Central Asia Editor explains how the Lukashenka regime’s crackdown on Belarus’s independent…
Summary Reflecting on events from the first half of 2021, IFEX’s Europe and Central Asia Editor explains how the Lukashenka regime’s crackdown on Belarus’s independent…
Keynote Address by Elena Kostyuchenko at the 2024 CGFoE Prize Ceremony April 25, 2024 Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York City Watch Elena Kostyuchenko speak…
Judges and the court systems in the Arabian Gulf countries do little protect freedom of expression, ruling nearly always with government security forces and their…
Summary Since January 2021, our region has witnessed a phenomenal emergence of massive, broad-based uprisings, as citizens push back against the reversal of democratic reforms…
Demanding Peace Is Not a Crime. Füsun Üstel’s Freedom Is the Freedom of Us All. We Demand: (16 July 2019) • On 7 May 2019,…
As reported by the International Press Institute, new draft legislation, recently introduced in Greece could pave the way for wider freedom of the press in…
This post originally appeared on Comparitech, it has been reposted here with permission and thanks. The vast majority of countries have some kind of restriction…
A presentation for JUSTICE FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION in 2014 Columbia University, March 10 -11, 2015 What were the most important developments in 2014…
On May 22, 2014 a group of military officers under the name, “National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)” deposed the interim government of Yingluck…
Summary Reflecting on events from the first half of 2021, IFEX’s Middle East and North Africa Editor explains how increasingly sophisticated digital surveillance tools are…