Articles by Initiative for Freedom of Expression – Turkey
![Malaysian lawyers hold a protest calling for the repeal of the Sedition Act in Kuala Lumpur, 16 October 2014, REUTERS/Olivia Harris](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/malaysia_seditionprotest_reuters.jpg)
Groups call for end to crackdown on free expression
Concerns include the use of Malaysia’s Sedition Act to suppress legitimate criticism of government and courts.
![Syrian lawyer and human rights defender Mazen Darwish, in an undated photo taken from the website of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), https://scm.bz/](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/mazendarwish_ipi_jointaction.jpg)
NGOs to Bashar al-Assad: Implement your amnesty decree and free Syrian activist Mazen Darwish
The International Press Institute and 23 IFEX members sent a letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad calling for the release of lawyer and human rights defender Mazen Darwish ahead of his court hearing on 25 March 2015.
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On Right to Know Day, calls for UN to include free expression rights in development goals
More than 100 civil society organisations ask the UN Secretary General to recognise the importance of free expression rights in the sustainable development goals.
![Activists during a protest against presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and a law restricting demonstrations as well as the crackdown on activists, in downtown Cairo on 24 May 2014, REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rtr3qoti.jpg)
Egypt: Dissolution ultimatum for independent groups
Independent organizations in Egypt face a looming crackdown. The government has threatened to enforce a draconian associations law that became law 12 years ago, but has seldom been enforced.
![British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, members of the United Nations High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, met in New York in May 2013 to discuss the Post-2015 Development Agenda, REUTERS/Richard Drew/Pool](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/unpanel_15august2014_reuters.jpg)
Lyon Declaration: Global call to include access to information in UN development agenda
IFEX members and partners from around the world urge the UN to include access to information in the Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.
![View of the Museum from the front gates, where Gezi Park demonstrators are depicted, Antenna-TR](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/museumpic1.jpg)
Turkey’s virtual Museum of Crimes of Thought
An IFEX member initiative creates a unique museum against censorship…open 24 hours a day.
![Arrested on 18 May, El Haqed is expected to remain in prison until mid-September, courtesy of Arte](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/el-haqedjpg.jpg)
Free expression groups come to the aid of imprisoned Moroccan rapper El Haqed
The Moroccan rapper Mouad Belghaoute – also known as El Haqed, ‘the enraged one’ – was sentenced on 1 July 2014 to four months in prison amid concerns that the trial was unfair.
![Journalists protest the imprisonment of Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed in Egypt, outside Al Jazeera offices in Sanaa, Yemen on 25 June 2014. , REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rtr3voyf.jpg)
Demand the release of recently sentenced Al Jazeera staff
More than 100 groups and individuals worldwide call on Egyptian President el-Sisi to remove the unjust sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists.