ARTICLE 19

In Guerreo, Professor Miguel Ángel Guzmán Garduño was found dead in his home on the night of 23 January, and had died from asphyxiation. In the next 48 hours there followed two more press freedom incidents in the country.

A coalition of human rights groups urged the international community to address the increasingly severe crackdown on free speech in Cambodia, during the country’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN in Geneva.

Following the criminalisation of peaceful protest in Egypt in November 2013, 57 organisations and individuals release joint statement against arrests of Egyptian bloggers and political activists.

Described by local civil society groups as the “legal establishment of dictatorship,” Law 3879 cracks down on protests, access to information and digital rights.

Leading free speech and privacy organisations have called on the world’s elite assembled at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to tackle the challenge of global mass surveillance of electronic communications.

Musa Sheriff, editor-in-chief and owner of The Voice and reporter Sainey Marenah have been charged with conspiracy after Marenah wrote an article stating that 19 members of President Yahya Jammeh’s political party had left to join the United Democratic Party.

Four journalists were attacked in Oaxaca while covering a local mayor’s inauguration. According to ARTICLE 19, the attack on the El Tuxtepecano journalists is a sign that authorities in Oaxaca are not capable of guaranteeing free expression in the state.

On the anniversary of Deyda Hydara’s assassination, a commemoration event was organised to remind the Gambian authorities of their obligation to shed light on this killing and put an end to all acts that violate freedom of expression and contravene human rights in general.