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Censorship
Caro Rolando for IFEX
The High Court of Kenya has temporarily lifted the ban on Rafiki. Judge Wilfrida Okwany delivered the ruling on 21 September 2018, stating “I am not convinced that Kenya is such a weak society that its moral foundation will be shaken by seeing such a film.”
Impunity
ARTICLE 19
According to the UN, 68 journalists have been killed globally in 2018 to date. Prospects for justice in these cases are remote: for the 530 killings recorded between 2012 and 2016, the rate of impunity is 90%.
Free Expression & the Law
P24 Platform for Independent Journalism
Mustafa Kara, Gökhan Çetin and İsmail Gökhan Bayram from the shuttered TV station Hayatın Sesi were each handed jail sentences of three years and nine months for "continuously spreading propaganda for a terrorist organisation".
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
International Attacks
20 September 2018
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
United States Digital Rights
19 September 2018
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Kyrgyzstan Censorship
18 September 2018
Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)
Latest Tweet:Government critic and former columnist Sar Min Swe jailed for seven years in Burma https://t.co/9SuV0PoBqN Convicte… https://t.co/G2fgRC15VN –
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