PEN America

The blogger faces between seven and fourteen years imprisonment for a ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post.

Warning that the spread of “fake news: is reaching a crisis point, Faking News: Fraudulent News and the Fight for Truth evaluates the array of strategies that Facebook, Google, Twitter, newsrooms, and civil society are undertaking to address the problem, stressing solutions that empower news consumers while vigilantly avoiding new infringements on free speech.

Organisations from around the world call on the EU to “be less deferential” towards Turkey.

Journalist Zeenat Shahzadi was recently recovered from a kidnapping. Rather than releasing her to her family, the Pakistani government is arbitrarily holding her in custody.

IFEX members join 55 NGOs in an open call to the international community to reconvene the Paris Peace Conference in light of its 26th anniversary and worsening attacks on democracy in Cambodia.

34 NGOs call on the government of Ghana to ensure its citizens’ right to access to information.

67 NGOs call for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender Tep Vanny on the one-year anniversary of her detention.

40 rights organisations from five different continents demand the release of human rights defenders detained in Turkey.