IFEX 2024 Convening in Berlin
The numbers – two days, 208 participants, one drum solo, two catwalks, innumerable cups of coffee and tea, and zero panels – tell only part of the story of what happened when the IFEX network and some of its allies and partners met for a face-to-face meeting in Berlin.
Over two days in April, IFEX held its first face-to-face network convening since the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic. We came together to deepen the connections that support our work as we tackle the threats to freedom of expression and information that increasingly constrain our world.
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Featured Articles
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Argentina: We condemn the alarming closure of civic space
IFEX-ALC, Alianza Regional por la Libre Expresión e Información [the Regional Alliance for Free Expression and Information], and Red Voces del Sur [the Voices of the South network]- three regional networks defending freedom of expression and press freedom– express our concern over the closure of civic space in Argentina as a consequence of the subjugation of freedom of information, expression, press, demonstration and peaceful assembly promoted by the current administration.
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Protection guide for LGBTQI+ people at in-person events
With LGBTQI+ events facing harassment and persecution globally, EFF suggests some quick and easy steps to protect yourself physically and keep your data secure at in-person events.
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Russia outlaws ‘The Moscow Times’ as “undesirable organisation”
“This legislation on undesirable organisations is just a repressive tool in the hands of the Kremlin. It aims to censor independent voices and to criminalise the practice of independent journalism” – EFJ
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UAE: Unjust sentences in second largest mass trial
Coalition denounces harsh sentences for 84 political dissidents, many already jailed for the same offenses.
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Jordan: Journalist Ahmed al-Zoubi jailed 11 months after conviction under cybercrime law
“Jordanian authorities are stepping up censorship and arrests of journalists instead of allowing them to express themselves freely.”
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Turkey: Freedom of the press and expression groups condemn broadcast regulator’s silencing of Açık Radyo
Radio license revoked following on-air ‘Armenian Genocide’ remarks.