Freedom House

More than 100 days after Robert Mugabe was re-elected as president of Zimbabwe, Freedom House examines how the government’s powers can severely limit citizens’ fundamental freedoms of expression, association, and assembly.

Drilling will disrupt indigenous tribes and damage the environment, but Ecuador’s repressive policies toward the media and civil society are preventing an open debate.

States that fail to protect human rights defenders or cooperate with the UN should not be elected to the UN’s top human rights body, IFEX members stress.

Hamza Kashgari was imprisoned following tweets he posted in February 2012, recounting an imaginary conversation with the Prophet Mohammed, and viewed as blasphemous by authorities.

Dozens of media freedom groups are calling on the Prime Minister of Somalia to rescind the arbitrary eviction order currently faced by the Shabelle Media Network. The eviction would place Radio Shabelle staff in immediate physical danger.

Chinese Communist Party media controls are increasingly constraining news outlets based outside China.

Since Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in May 2012, Russia has seen a flurry of restrictive new regulations regarding online freedom of expression, resulting in a score decline for the country in the latest edition of Freedom on the Net, Freedom House’s annual report on online and digital media freedoms.

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.