Human Rights Watch

Moroccan authorities are using a law designed to keep people from falsely claiming professional credentials to bring criminal charges against people trying to expose abuses.

Police in Chechnya have carried out a new round of unlawfuldetentions, beatings, and humiliation of men they presume to be gay orbisexual.

The Education Ministry established a hotline and referral system for complaints of violence in schools, but families said they typically received minimal or no information about how or whether the complaints were handled.

Human rights activist Elżbieta Podlesna was held for several hours on suspicion of offending religious beliefs after she displayed a poster of the Virgin Mary with a rainbow halo.

7 IFEX members are among 17 organisations urging Formula One to uphold its commitment to human rights by calling on Bahraini authorities to free Najah Yusuf, an activist imprisoned for expressing her opposition to F1 races being held in Bahrain.

To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, civil society groups and communities in Cambodia and beyond condemn the rampant impunity for attacks against journalists and human rights defenders, and call for immediate action to bring all perpetrators to account.

The Court found that the journalists’ rights to liberty, security and free expression had been violated and that the two men should be released.

Whether it was reporting on illegal mining tycoons, training female journalists in Afghanistan or calling out the dangerous media environment in Pakistan, March definitely proved to be a time for bold women journalists in Asia.

In his last week in office, President Obama commuted the 35-year sentence of military whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who will be released in 2017.

IFEX members reflect on what a Trump presidency will mean for human rights and free expression.

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.

Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzyna was shot dead on Thursday 16 April 2015 in Kiev. He was the former editor-in-chief of Segodnya newspaper and was known for being pro-Russian and a critic of President Petro Poroshenko’s government.

A Somali freelance journalist has been detained without charge since 10 January after interviewing a woman who says she was raped by state security forces in a camp for internally displaced persons.

In response to an increase in self-immolations by Tibetans, Chinese authorities have employed forms of collective punishment to discourage these acts and arrested people who helped immolators plan or carry out their protests.

The final draft of the new Egyptian Constitution, which comes at the heels of the President’s controversial Constitutional Declaration, protects some rights but undermines others.

Over 300 people have been arrested since 14 November as thousands of people have been protesting against the government’s decision to end fuel subsidies.