Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch is concerned not only about the disproportionate and unconstitutional nature of Section 702 surveillance, but also about the possibility that the government is using questionable legal interpretations to avoid notifying criminal defendants that Section 702 produced information for the investigations in their cases.

February: Censorship in Malaysia and Pakistan; deadly attacks against journalists in Bangladesh and Pakistan; global action to support three Iranian refugees

The Angolan government should urgently and impartially investigate police use of force to disperse a peaceful protest in the capital, Luanda. The police beat activists with batons and injured at least four protesters using police dogs.

Rustam Usmanov, a peaceful political activist imprisoned arbitrarily in Uzbekistan for 19 years and brutally tortured, was finally freed on 13 February 2017, at the end of his prison term.

Authorities in Morocco continue two-year campaign of prohibiting and obstructing activities of the country’s largest independent human rights organization.

Following years of attempts by Poland to restrict human rights and free expression, civil society is asking the EC to invoke an “Article 7 Procedure”.

Based in Nairobi for the past five years, British correspondent Jerome Starkey was detained without explanation at Nairobi airport on his return from a visit to the United Kingdom in December 2016 and was put on a flight back to London the next day.

For the past four years, the Kremlin has sought to stigmatise criticism or alternative views of government policy as disloyal, foreign-sponsored, or even traitorous.