While well-intentioned, the bill excessively invades free speech, and criminalises communication in a vague and arbitrary manner. This statement was originally published on sflc.in on 24 July 2025.

Marcelo Ruiz was riding a motorcycle in the El Guabito area when he was intercepted and shot multiple times in the arms. Both Ruiz and his companion were injured and remain in stable condition under ...

"Across India, a quiet purge of digital content is underway." This statement was originally published on indexoncensorship.org on 23 July 2025. Journalism critical of the government is vanishing from ...

Since January, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has documented the murder of at least 13 journalists in Latin America. This exceeds the nine cases recorded for the entire year of 2024, confirming an ...

Egypt must stop harassing rights defender Mohamed Abdel Salam, remove barriers on AFTE’s work, and end its crackdown on civic space. As a network of 114 member-organisations dedicated to promoting and ...

Despite sustained pushback from civil society and digital rights groups, Zambia has enacted sweeping cyber laws that threaten fundamental freedoms under the guise of countering terrorism and ...

This briefing paper, presented by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), aims to provide insight into the evolving political landscape of Syria. It seeks to highlight the significant developments ...

Both journalists were detained on politically motivated accusations in separate incidents marked by police violence. Both journalists were detained this week in separate incidents marked by police ...

The Senegalese government is using regulatory, financial, and administrative measures to systematically clamp down on press freedom under the guise of professionalising the media.

The Observation Mission monitoring Ola Bini’s case is again calling out the prosecution's inaccuracies and abuses that weaponize misunderstandings about computer security, undermining both Bini's ...

GCHR condemns the sham trial as a tool to silence dissent, and calls for the immediate release of arbitrarily sentenced defendants and urgent reforms to ensure fair trials.

A new report by PEN Norway examines how Kurdish journalists, writers and activists are discriminated against in the Turkish legal system due to official attitudes towards their native language.