VPN ban, visa weaponisation, banned apps, and censorship across Asia
June 2024 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round-up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Pakistan’s impunity, India’s AI, PNG’s ‘media control policy’, and a landmark ruling against red-tagging in the Philippines
May 2024 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round-up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Journalists who ‘crossed the line’, digital repression, blasphemy prosecutions, and marriage equality bill
April 2024 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round-up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Elections-related censorship, repression, and women speak out against impunity
March 2024 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round-up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Dangers of Hong Kong’s new legislation, Indian protests blocked, and Pakistan’s post-election uncertainties
February 2024 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
What’s new and old in 2024: Repressive laws, attacks, and election disinformation in Asia
January 2024 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Looking ahead: Censorship, AI, disinformation, and repression undermining elections
IFEX Asia & Pacific Regional Editor Mong Palatino takes us on a tour of some of the challenges, trends, and prospects related to freedom of expression and democracy in the region.
A massive data breach, a TikTok ban, a mass crackdown, and ‘overpolicing free speech’
November 2023 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Elusive justice: Combatting election disinformation and impunity; journalists freed in China and Afghanistan
Special International Day to End Impunity Issue: Mong Palatino’s latest Asia and Pacific brief shines a light on the intersections between impunity, journalists’ safety, and elections, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Access to information, escape from China, revival of broadcast and resilient media voices
Special Issue: Mong Palatino brings an access to information focus to his latest regional brief, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Two years of Taliban and a ‘love letter’ from China
August 2023 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
A surge in cross-border repression, Manipur’s internet shutdowns, Cambodia’s elections, and defying the Taliban
July 2023 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Repression and resistance in Asia: ‘Freedom will always win’
June 2023 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Pakistan’s crisis, Hong Kong’s library purge, Chinese censorship (no laughing matter) and some good news
May 2023 in Asia-Pacific: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s regional editor Mong Palatino, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.