Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)

People are encouraged to join around 200 organisations supporting the adoption of 13 basic principles applying existing human rights law to modern digital surveillance.

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms condemns the closing of the offices of Ma’an News Agency and Alarabia TV and the Lents Company for media production in Palestine.

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.

In its semi annual report on violations against Palestinian journalists, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) has monitored 113 violations since the start of the year 2013.

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.

IFEX members called on Philippines authorities to reprimand a local police chief who arrested a radio broadcaster without a warrant after he talked about police incompetence on the air.

After increased pressure from the Israel lobby and Jewish institutions in the United States, the Newseum reversed its decision to honor Palestinian journalists Mohamed Salama and Hussam Al Koumi, who were killed by Israeli forces during their coverage of the Gaza offensive last December for Al-Aqsa TV, a Hamas-affiliated TV station.