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Local journalists said that the restriction is an attempt to gag local and overseas media.

Although homosexuality is not a criminal offense in the Ivory Coast, the LGBTQ+ community remain on the periphery, grappling with a society that does not fully accept them.

The banning of “Jeune Afrique” is another step in Kais Saied’s clampdown on independent media, further undoing the democratic gains of the 2011 revolution.

President Nicolás Maduro’s regime has increased surveillance, persecuted political dissent, and blocked the flow of information online. Venezuelan journalists, activists and political dissidents are looking for ways to circumvent and report the abuse.

Spanish based organisation, CitizenGO, lends its support to politically motivated anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in Kenya.

“Ayan believes the ban on LGBTQI+ people is intended to ‘remove people from the information field, to make them completely invisible.’ And you can do whatever you want to the invisible.”

Anh Chi is known for producing videos decrying abuse of power by authorities.

Journalist Melita Vrsaljko was filming an illegal dumpsite in Nadin, central Croatia, when she was first attacked; the following day, she was assaulted at her home. Her attackers are the sister and father of a powerful local politician.