Despite African Union diplomacy, attacks on schools, hospitals, and markets continue, leaving South Sudanese civilians ...

Human rights defender and journalist Kamel Labidi is remembered for advancing media reform, defending imprisoned activists, and for his leadership of IFEX member Vigilance for Democracy and the Civic ...

Following her reporting on alleged plagiarism in Justice Minister Radu Marinescu's PhD thesis, Șercan was attacked by politicians and received hundreds of threating and intimidatory messages on social ...

The most commonly identified threat was Russia's invasion of Ukraine, followed by the President's Office and anonymous Telegram channels.

Roshaan Khattak, filmmaker, human rights activist, and post-graduate researcher at the University of Cambridge, has been receiving death threats allegedly linked to Pakistan’s intelligence service ...

The spread of AI-driven surveillance technologies in public spaces marks a clear shift in how the state surveils its citizens today.

Uganda's most recent internet shutdown was engineered to quiet dissent, fracture everyday life, and weaken collective political agency.

Almost two years after a court ordered protections for journalists, the Nigerian government is asking for extra time to challenge the ruling instead of implementing it.

Uganda's pre-election internet shutdown effectively froze mobile money, halted online trade, and stripped informal and gig workers of income at the most politically sensitive moment of the year.

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CPJ reports that Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council has broadened defamation legislation at a moment when political immunity is nearing expiration, raising serious concerns about increased ...

SMEX's analysis finds that Meta's delayed 2024 human rights report fails to address over-moderation and opaque takedowns in MENA, exposing persistent threats to freedom of expression and ...