Human Rights Watch

The country’s new legislation takes prison terms for peaceful free speech out of one law, only to put it right back into another.

The misnamed media rights and freedom law is the junta’s latest attempt to increase government interference and control of any independent news reporting in Thailand.

The Cambodian government should immediately release the Khmer Five, human rights defenders who have spent a year in prison on politically motivated charges.

Three months, 90 days, more than two thousand hours without news of Dong Samuel Luak, a well-known South Sudanese activist, and Aggrey Idris, an opposition official, who disappeared off the streets of Nairobi on January 23 and 24.

Organisations have called for for a strong and effective response from the European Parliament, critical of the Hungarian government’s continued attack on independent institutions, including academic institutions, civil society organisations and media.

The police detained activists Enrique Asumu and Alfredo Okenve on April 17, 2017, and have exceeded the 72-hour period that Equatorial Guinean law permits them to detain a person without charge.

Members of PACE were urged to fully support the adoption of a resolution that renews the Council of Europe’s attention and reporting on the dramatic human rights situation in the Northern Caucasus.

This new requirement is a slap in the face of Ukraine’s anti-corruption activists and its international partners who have been calling for a more transparent government.