ARTICLE 19

Farghadani was first arrested and imprisoned in August 2014 for a cartoon she posted on Facebook, critical of members of parliament. She was released in November 2014 but re-arrested six weeks later and sentenced to 12 years and nine months in jail.

IFEX members urge the UN Security Council to ensure the protection of journalists in Yemen in light of historic resolution.

The decision, which imposes liability on a news portal for the comments of its users, could chill freedom of expression beyond the Council of Europe states.

Four years after Sierra Leone Journalist Ibrahim Foday’s death, members of IFEX join the Media Foundation for West Africa in calling for more rapid progress.

The International Partnership Mission to Indonesia encourages President Widodo to ensure that journalists are free to operate in all parts of the country, and to protect the safety of both foreign and Indonesian journalists.

If persons with disabilities and the organisations that represent them are to challenge their exclusion, they need to have information about the government policies that contribute to exclusion.

The groups urged donors and others to press the government not to revive a 2011 draft law that was shelved under domestic and international pressure because it threatened freedom of association and expression.

A new report by David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, makes it absolutely clear that attempts by governments to gain backdoor access to people’s communications or to intentionally weaken encryption standards violate international law.