Justice for Syria, surviving Egypt’s republic of fear, and spyware targets women rights defenders
January 2022 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Unjust sentences in Egypt, and states of heightened surveillance
December 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Sham trials in Egypt, water protests in Iran, and Pegasus spyware targets Palestinian activists
November 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Content suppression, terrorism designations, and perpetual states of emergency
October 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Biden’s betrayal, an Alternative Dubai Expo, and unjustifiable Facebook censorship in Palestine
September 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Mass surveillance, press crackdowns, and punishing prisoners of conscience – impunity reigns in MENA
August 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Spyware, hunger strikes, and alleged coups: A summer of suppression in MENA
July 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
‘The Smartphones are listening’: Regulating exports and abuses of cybertools
Reflecting on events from the first half of 2021, IFEX’s Middle East and North Africa Editor explains how increasingly sophisticated digital surveillance tools are being sold to and deployed by authoritarian states in the region to target human rights defenders, and how civil society is defending the right to privacy and digital free expression.
Weaponizing terrorism laws in Egypt, Palestinian women journalists targeted, and Iran’s endemic impunity
June 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Checked expression in Iraq, unchecked repression in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and censoring Palestine
May 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Battling apartheid, fake news laws, and a prison-industrial complex in MENA
April 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Silencing dissent in MENA: How authorities are targeting exiles, journalists and prisoners of conscience
March 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
In MENA: The search for justice in a pandemic of impunity
February 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
MENA’s Winter of Discontent: Old grievances, new suppression tactics
January 2021 in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Fear and loathing in MENA: Arrests, prison sentences, and surveillance
December in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Image-laundering, shrinking spaces, and words that escape prison walls
November in Middle East and North Africa: A free expression roundup produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.