Human Rights Watch

Al-Omeisy, 38, has been an important voice in Yemen. He has used social media, tweeting in English and Arabic, to report on and analyze events in real-time, including airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition supporting the government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Erkin Musaev had been imprisoned since 2006 and was granted early release on orders of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

67 NGOs call for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender Tep Vanny on the one-year anniversary of her detention.

South Korea’s Supreme Court orders government to allow an LGBT rights foundation to legally register as a charity, ending a three-year struggle against multiple government agencies.

Uzbek journalist and asylum-seeker Khodoberdi Nurmatov faces a risk of ill-treatment, including torture, if Russia returns him to Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said.

This July, protesters in Israel and Morocco were met with violence and journalists were subjected to harassment and denial of access, Lebanon banned protests, and 150 organisations met in Doha to discuss threats to freedom of expression in general, and the case of Al Jazeera in particular.

After his death, not only was Liu’s name censored on social media platforms, even phrases containing the word “thunder” – a homophone for “tears” in Chinese – and the candle emoji were removed by censors.

Militias and other armed groups with a ‘with-us-or-against-us’ mindset have gone after activists, bloggers, and media workers, driving many to flee the country and chilling speech for everyone else, said HRw. “The Government of National Accord should hold armed groups, especially those aligned with it, accountable.