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The UN Human Rights Council Chamber, Geneva.

At UNHRC, rights groups highlight deterioration of media freedom in Turkey

Over 70 rights and expression organisations worldwide entreated the UN Human Rights Council’s 34th session to call on Turkey to take immediate steps to address the ongoing free expression crisis in the country.

Asylum-seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea March 21, 2014. , AAP/Eoin Blackwell/via REUTERS

Asia & Pacific round-up: Film screening criminalised, free expression refugees trapped on Manus Island, and more

February: Censorship in Malaysia and Pakistan; deadly attacks against journalists in Bangladesh and Pakistan; global action to support three Iranian refugees

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Pakistan’s version of “The Onion” blocked by government

What does it say about a government when it can’t take criticism, even of the tongue-in-cheek variety?

A journalist reports in front of smoke rising from burning fuel tankers in Quetta, 9 December 2011, REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed

Study maps forms of surveillance faced by female journalists in Pakistan

A newly released DRF pilot study explores the gendered surveillance that female journalists experience in Pakistan.

University students search the internet in Karachi, Pakistan., Associated Press

Surveillance as a feminist issue

Are women’s experiences with technology and surveillance vastly different from the dominant male experience? Digital activist Shmyla Khan certainly thinks so.

University students search the internet in Karachi, Pakistan., Associated Press

Surveillance as a feminist issue

Are women’s experiences with technology and surveillance vastly different from the dominant male experience? Digital activist Shmyla Khan certainly thinks so.

Link to: Digital rights group appeals use of blasphemy law against teenager

Digital rights group appeals use of blasphemy law against teenager

A teenage Christian boy has been arrested in Pakistan for ‘liking’ what is being called a ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post.