Media Rights Agenda (MRA)

Organised by the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), the workshop aims to deepen participants’ knowledge of online advocacy and develop strategies to create an Internet environment that fosters innovation, information sharing and development.

Under the Frivolous Petitions Bill, Nigerians could face fines or imprisonment for publishing statements intended “to discredit or set the public against any person or group of persons.”

Media Rights Agenda commends the governments of Nigeria, Angola and Morocco for co-sponsoring a resolution passed by the Executive Board of UNESCO recommending its General Conference to proclaim September 28 as “International Access to Information Day”.

On 25 June 2015, a Sharia court of appeal in Rijiyar Lemo, in Kano State, Northwest Nigeria, reportedly sentenced nine persons to death, for alleged blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed.

IFEX members urge the UN Security Council to ensure the protection of journalists in Yemen in light of historic resolution.

Four years after Sierra Leone Journalist Ibrahim Foday’s death, members of IFEX join the Media Foundation for West Africa in calling for more rapid progress.

On 3 June 2015, political thugs suspected to be working for Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti State in southwest Nigeria, assaulted Kamarudeen Ogundele, the state correspondent of the Punch newspaper, as he photographed women praying for peace in the state.

Charged under the Sedition Act in Malaysia, internationally known political cartoonist Zunar could face 43 years in jail for a tweet.