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On 31 December 2018, the Bahraini Court of Cassation upheld renowned human rights defender Nabeel Rajab’s 5-year prison sentence for tweeting.

The New Year is arriving with little to celebrate in Brazil: activists are warning that the new president poses a serious threat to human rights.

Amira Abdelhamid shares her thoughts on how legislation is being used to close civic space in Egypt.

IFEX examines how the Egyptian government has been manipulating fears over national security as part of its widespread crackdown on activists, lawyers and journalists.

In 2018, SMEX launched a petition in collaboration with the Lebanese band Al-Rahel Al-Kabir to make their songs – which had been censored from iTunes Middle East – available on the platform.

Nine international freedom of expression, press freedom, and professional journalists’ organisations condemn the lack of progress in the case of the investigative journalist.

Israa Al-Ghomgham stands to become the first woman in Saudi Arabia to face capital punishment for human rights activism – one ‘first’ that has received scant media attention.

So-called “blood money” laws and practices may offer a faster route to a minimum threshold of justice, but legal scholars warn they can also lead to grave abuses while enabling the cycle of killings to continue.

A visualisation of key information from the 2018 UNESCO Director General’s report on the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity.

The case could be of crucial importance as a judicial precedent and source of legal resources to achieve similar results in other cases.

In Colombia a powerful fight against online gender violence is underway, using a tool destined to become a movement in its own right.

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 murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the ensuing cover-up were carried out by people who apparently believed they were untouchable. And why wouldn’t they? On this fifth International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the guilty are still rarely held to account.

The public inquiry must be completely independent of the Maltese police, government and politicians, and it should be conducted by a panel of respected international judges with no political or government links.

IMS, IFEX, CPJ, and the ISLP have submitted a joint third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Emin Huseynov.