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Detained on Manus Island (from left): Behrouz Boochani, Eaten Fish and Mehdi Savari, Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance

Australia: Free expression detained?

25 IFEX members question Australia’s detention of dissident journalists, cartoonists and actors at Manus Island.

Pakistani activists rally to condemn the "disappearance" of human rights activist Salman Haider, in Karachi, 9 January 2017, AP Photo/Fareed Khan

Monthly round-up: Attacks on secular voices, transgender and land rights in Asia

In January: “Disappeared” bloggers, activist in Pakistan; LGBT community rights threatened in Indonesia; new independent outlets in Hong Kong; activists see no justice in Cambodia.

A gate at the entrance to the Pray Sar prison near Phnom Penh, 8 December 2016, AP Photo/Heng Sinith

UN body declares the detention of 5 human rights defenders is “arbitrary”

This is the first time that the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has referred to human rights defenders as a protected group that is entitled to equal legal protection under Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Imprisoned journalist Faisal Hayyat

Bahrain must cease judicial harassment of Faisal Hayyat and other Bahraini journalists

48 human rights organizations have signed a letter asking King Hamad to cease its judicial harassment of human rights defenders and its violation of their right to freedom of expression.

AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa

Egypt’s Draft NGO Law Dismantles Civil Society

We, the undersigned civil society organisations unequivocally condemn the law on civic associations (non-governmental organisations) adopted by Egypt’s Parliament on 15 November 2016. The Parliament has debated and approved the bill in its entirety in record time, and referred it to the State Council for legal review (non-binding on the Parliament in this case). If […]

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Wikimedia

Parliament must defend health of Turkish democracy

Over 40 organisations call for Turkey’s national assembly to end the national state of emergency, extended for three months on October 19th.

Asylum seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, 21 March 2014, AAP/Eoin Blackwell/via REUTERS (Faces pixellated at source)

Refugees, migrants and minorities: Asia Pacific September round-up

Award recognizes Iranian cartoonist held by Australia, surveillance in Thailand takes a most scary turn and a report on transgender women in Cambodia reveals shocking statistics.

A Cambodian protester calling for an end to discrimination against the LGBT community, in front of the National Assembly, in Phnom Penh, 16 November 2012, AP Photo/Heng Sinith

Report reveals shocking levels of discrimination against transgender women in Cambodia

Nearly all of the trans women surveyed by CCHR experienced some kind of harassment while in public spaces because of their trans identities.