Gayathry Venkiteswaran

Six anti-constitutional referendum activists speak outside Bangkok's Remand Prison after a Thai military court ordered their release on bail, 6 July 2016, REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Asia Pacific round-up: Kem Ley, Kashmir ban and Pakistan’s law

Murders, media bans and surveillance laws put growing pressures on civil society in Asia.

In this 29 April 2016 file photo, then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte answers questions from the media in Manila, AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File

July | Monthly round-up: Big threats to free expression in Asia

Facebook takedowns, digital rights in Nepal, attacks on the media, Tiananmen censorship, a landmark act in Sri Lanka and much more in this month’s regional round-up.

Slain environmental activist Chut Wutty is the subject of a documentary that was blocked from screening in Cambodia in April 2016, Facebook/"I Am Chut Wutty"

May round-up: arts, films censored, new reports released

Dance performances as well as documentaries featuring rights violations and struggles for justice were targeted by censors across Asia and the Pacific region in May.

Anonymous collective GreatFire received an award from Index on Censorship on 13 April 2016 for its work related to fighting Internet censorship in China.

Free expression updates from Asia-Pacific: April

In the April round-up: horrific attacks against secularists in Bangladesh, journalists arrested while protesting criminal defamation in the Maldives, crackdown on opposing voices in Cambodia, plus advocacy, awards and much more.

Wen Yunchao, a Chinese US-based blogger, has reported that is family members were questioned and taken away by the authorities over the controversial letter calling for the president to resign , By shi zhao (originally posted to Flickr as 北风) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Ensnared netizens and Pacific summits

A breakdown of the events that are changing the free expression landscape in Asia and the Pacific.

Opposition senator Hong Sok Hour, center, is escorted by riot police officers at Phnom Penh Municipal Court after the Prime Minister accused him of treason for comments posted on Facebook, AP Photo/Heng Sinith

Asia Pacific: A win for net neutrality, a devastating setback for press freedom

A breakdown of the events that are changing the free expression landscape in Asia and the Pacific.

Fire-fighters inspect the wreckage of a bus was hit by a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan January 20, 2016, REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

A tough start to the year: January in the Asia & Pacific region

From lethal attacks on the media in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the case of the missing Hong Kong publishers, to a campaign to block government interference with Australia’s national broadcaster, we present a month of events that are changing the free expression landscape in the region.