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7amleh – Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media
ActiveWatch – Media Monitoring Agency
Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Association
Adil Soz – International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech
Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC)
Africa Free Media Trust
Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC)
African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX)
Albanian Media Institute
Alex Derry
Alex Nunns
Aliansi Jurnalis Independen/Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI)
ALQST
Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB)
Amy Johnson
Ana Fondo
Annie Game
Arab Archives Institute
Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)
ARTICLE 19
Artículo 19 (Mexico and Central America)
Artigo 19 (Brazil)
Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias América Latina y el Caribe (AMARC ALC)
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)
Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE)
Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS)
Association of Caribbean Media Workers
Association of Independent Electronic Media
Association pour le Developpement Integré et la Solidarité Interactive (ADISI-Cameroun)
Bahrain Center for Human Rights
Belarusian Association of Journalists
Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism
Bytes for All (B4A)
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
Cambodian Centre for Independent Media (CCIM)
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
Carly Nyst
Caro Rolando
Cartoonists Rights
Cathal Sheerin
CEJIL
Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies
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Center for Independent Journalism – Romania
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Centre algérien pour la défense et la promotion de la liberté de la presse
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Centre for Media and Society (CEMESO)
Centro de Archivos y Acceso a la Información Pública
Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social
Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
Chloe Safier
Christos Syllas
Clément Nyaletsossi Voule
Cole Scigliano
Colette Davidson
Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
Comisión de Libertad de Prensa de la Asociación de Periodistas de Guatemala
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David Christopher
David Kaye
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Diane Partenio
Diego de León Sagot
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Elena Milashina/CPJ Moscow correspondent
Elia J. Ayoub
Elif İnce
Elisabeth Witchel
Emad Mubarak
Erin Woycik
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Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association
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Felicia Anthonio
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Jillian C. York
John Lewis
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Kieran Bergmann
Kristina Stockwood
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
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Laura Vidal
Leslie de Freitas
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Marianna Tzabiras
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Ms. Dalma Dojcsak, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
Nadine Gogu, Director, Independent Journalism Center, Moldova
Naomi Hunt and Konstantin Balev, International Press Institute
Naseem Tarawnah
Natasha Grzincic
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Nicolas Thiers
Nighat Dad
Nyan Lynn
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Paula Martins
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Peter Nsenkeng, African Freedom of Information Centre
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PROBIDAD
Produced in conversation with Alex Hearne in November 2017
Produced in conversation with research associate Adnan Chaudhry
Public Association “Journalists”
Rachael Kay
Raghu Menon
Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)
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Reyhana Masters
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Rignam Wangkhang
Riham Abu Aita
Rohan Jayasakera for Index on Censorship
Sahar Habib Ghazi
Samuel Gebre
Sara Brandão
Sara Whyatt
Sarah Al-Otaibi
Sarah Hartley
SFLC.in
Silvia Chocarro Marcesse
Sindicato de Periodistas del Paraguay
Siyah Bant
SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom (Samir Kassir Eyes)
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Tom Rhodes, Nuba Reports
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Tyler Shipley
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Vania Pigeonutt
Vanina Berghella
Vigilance for Democracy and the Civic State
Visualizing Impact (VI)
Vivian Affoah
West African Journalists Association (WAJA)
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
Zoe Titus, Regional Director, MISA
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Protesters carry a banner with the portraits of Azerbaijani political prisoners during a demonstration for press freedom, in Berlin, Germany, 21 January 2015, Maurizio Gambarini/picture alliance via Getty Images

Mobs target journalists and Turkey hands jail sentences to 28 academics

January in Europe and Central Asia: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.

An Azerbaijani opposition supporter holds a placard reading 'Where is democracy?' during a protest against a scheduled referendum in Baku, 17 September 2016, Aziz Karimov/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Support for Mehman Huseynov: Protests on the streets, in the prisons and from European institutions

IFEX members have been among those calling for the charges against Huseynov to be dropped and for him to be unconditionally released.

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IFEX member Mehman Huseynov begins hunger strike in protest at new charges

Azerbaijani IFEX member and long-time critic of President Aliyev’s regime, Mehman Huseynov, faces dubious assault charges just two months before he is due to be released from jail.

A woman dressed as the French Republic national symbol 'La Marianne' walks on the Champs Elysee during a yellow vest protest, in Paris, France, 29 December 2018, Bruno Thevenin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

7,000 social media users taken into custody in Turkey in 2018, an IFEX member on hunger strike and the Yellow Vests

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

Dawit Isaak and the failure of silent diplomacy: In conversation with Björn Tunbäck

Björn Tunbäck of Reporters Without Borders (Sweden) and Swedish PEN has been involved in the campaign for journalist Dawit Isak’s release from the start. He told Cathal Sheerin about the campaign in Sweden and what states and intergovernmental organisations could be doing, but aren’t.

A demonstrator holds a photo of anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handziuk, a candle and a placard reading in Ukrainian "Who are the Murderers of Katia Handziuk?" during a rally outside the Interior Ministry in Kyiv, 4 November 2018, Danil Shamkin / Barcroft Media via Getty Images

65% of Turks fear sharing political views online, France bans ‘fake’ news, Ukraine imposes martial law

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

Two men hold pictures of murdered Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova (C) and murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya (L), during a vigil in Sofia, Bulgaria, 8 October 2018, NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images

Nudes, blasphemy and a hunger strike

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

A Russian police officer apprehends a youth during a protest rally against planned increases to the nationwide pension age in Saint Petersburg, 9 September 2018, OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images

The purple bra, the mad printer and the dictator’s honour

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

A portrait of Taner Kılıç, chair of Amnesty Turkey, is hung in front of a historic stock market building, in Paris, France, 6 June 2018; Kılıç was released on 15 August, FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images

Daphne’s birthday, a reporter found dead and the menstruation activists

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

A woman holds a portrait of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya during a rally marking the 10th anniversary of her murder in Moscow, 7 October 2016, NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images

Europe: Murder in Nizhny Novgorod – and has Turkey’s state of emergency really ended?

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

Protesters against internet censorship, wearing computers as helmets, are seen outside the Hanover Congress Centrum in Hanover, Germany, 15 March 2015, Alexander Koerner/Getty Images

Is the censorship machine coming? Plus good LGBTQI+ news in Poland

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

Police officers detain an opposition supporter attempting to stage a protest rally in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 23 June 2018, REUTERS/Mariya Gordeyeva

Video: Mass arrests carried out to pre-empt protest in Kazakhstan

On 23 June at least eight journalists were targeted and detained in a round of mass arrests ahead of a planned protest in the city of Almaty. This disturbing video shows people being grabbed off the streets by uniformed, often balaclava-wearing security agents.

Uzbek journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev (C), who was allowed to leave police custody, poses for a picture with relatives and supporters in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 7 May 2018, REUTERS/Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov

Resistance and defiance: Free expression in Europe and Central Asia in May

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

A Bulgarian media freedom group holds an action in solidarity with media professionals detained in Turkey demanding their immediate release, in Sofia, Bulgaria, 22 March 2018, DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images

Mass jailings and parallels in impunity: Europe and Central Asia in March

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.

An inscription reading 'Denizfree' is seen at the headquarters of German newspaper "Die Welt" in Berlin, on 16 February 2018, after Turkey released German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel from prison, STEFANIE LOOS/AFP/Getty Images

Snap elections, SLAPP sentences and a Holocaust law

A roundup of key free expression news in Europe and Central Asia, based on IFEX member reports.