I’lam – Arab Center for Media Freedom Development and Research

During Israel’s offensive in Gaza last year, three journalists were killed and 24 journalists injured. Following a request by I’lam Media Center in Israel to the Military Advocate General to open an investigation into the attacks, an Israeli military committee was finally formed.

IFEX members appeal to the King to end restrictions on news websites, nearly five months after Jordanian regulators blocked some 300 sites under a new licensing provision of the Press and Publications Law.

The Prawer Plan seeks to displace up to 70,000 Palestinians from the Naqab (Negev), cut off the community’s ties to their historical lands and force them into towns specially designated for them.

IFEX members issued a joint call for amendments to a deeply-flawed draft media law in Somalia before it goes to parliament for approval in August.

The Israeli media has launched several protests over the court’s decision to impose a gag order, claiming that it blatantly obstructs the work of journalists and the public’s right to know.

IFEX members sent a joint letter to President Museveni calling for an end to impunity in cases of police violence against the media, after a violent crackdown on a demonstration in May over media closures.

Over 50 NGOs worldwide signed a joint appeal to the U.N. against the ill-treatment and torture of detained human rights defenders, activists and photojournalists in Bahrain, calling for U.N. and Red Cross visits.

Two dozen IFEX members call on Turkey to free prominent translator and women’s rights activist Ayşe Berktay, winner of the 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.