Freedom House

President Ilham Aliyev’s re-election by an overwhelming majority on 10 October 2013 has been followed by new crackdown on the media. Azadliq is now in danger of succumbing to efforts to throttle it financially.

The Chinese Communist Party presides over an elaborate Internet filtration system, arbitrarily blocking any foreign service or website that fails to comply with its censorship directives. Twitter and Facebook have been blocked for years, and the websites of the “New York Times” and Bloomberg News have been unavailable in China since 2012, when they published revealing articles on the family wealth of top Chinese leaders.

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.