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Algerian faces 25 years over Israeli official interview
Morocco charges blogger with “exchanging intelligence with a foreign power” over a YouTube interview with a Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
Monthly round-up: Attacks on secular voices, transgender and land rights in Asia
In January: “Disappeared” bloggers, activist in Pakistan; LGBT community rights threatened in Indonesia; new independent outlets in Hong Kong; activists see no justice in Cambodia.
Israel’s new ‘Facebook bill’ threatens free speech
The Israeli Knesset passed a first reading of a controversial new bill that would allow courts to remove online content it deems “inciting”.
Israel’s new ‘Facebook bill’ threatens free speech
The Israeli Knesset passed a first reading of a controversial new bill that would allow courts to remove online content it deems “inciting”.
Award-winning Chinese human rights journalist: “This is a calling, not a career choice”
Zhao Sile, who has received three Human Rights Press Awards, has built her journalistic career on chronicling China’s human rights defenders and their suffering.
Iranian civil rights defender on hunger strike for over 67 days
The campaign to save civil rights defender Arash Sadeghi has reached a critical point. Two months into his hunger strike, many worry Sadeghi’s life is on the line in Iran’s Evin prison.
Russia’s five most memorable online censorship moments of 2016
As 2016 comes to a close, RuNet Echo looks back at the five most controversial, infamous, and even ironic actions this year by Russia’s federal censors.
British-Algerian journalist’s death shocks nation
Algerian journalist and blogger Mohammad Tamalt was laid to rest in Algiers as a result of a two-month hunger strike in protest of his arrest.