Canadian Journalists for Free Expression

In a letter to the president of Lithuania and the president of the European Council, Index on Censorship and 39 other NGOS call upon leaders of the European Union to discuss the issue of mass surveillance at the European Council meeting on 24 and 25 October.

Press freedom groups join the Hong Kong Journalists Association to condemn the banning of Hong Kong reporters from covering Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Indonesia in early October.

In a letter to the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Canada, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression calls for the release of Greenpeace activists detained by Russian authorities in September.

In a second joint appeal, over 60 IFEX members and partners again call for the release of Moroccan journalist Ali Anouzla, after terrorism-related charges were laid against him.

IFEX members appeal to the King to end restrictions on news websites, nearly five months after Jordanian regulators blocked some 300 sites under a new licensing provision of the Press and Publications Law.

The authority of the Communist Party of China has long rested on its ability to manufacture truth. While the artistic class is certainly not the first cadre of people who have challenged the Chinese government, they represent the most interconnected and highest profile dissenters.

IFEX members call on Brazil’s Congress to promptly pass the Marco Civil bill and on President Roussef to ensure its due implementation, as a measure to protect the right of Brazilians to an Internet that is free and open to all.

Canada’s position in a global ranking of right to information laws has slipped, dropping to 56th in the annual ratings prepared by the Halifax-based Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) and Access Info Europe (AIE) of Madrid. Canada was not alone, though: Most established democracies with long-standing access to information laws have been falling.