PEN International

While welcoming Tunisia’s acceptance of 110 of its 125 recommendations during a UN review last week, the IFEX-TMG calls on the country to implement them without delay and end the criminalisation of defamation.

NGOs lobbying at the UN call for the release of human rights defenders, and to ensure that those who participate in Bahrain’s UPR process do not face reprisals.

As trial proceeds, over forty IFEX members urge the Cambodian government to drop charges facing detained rights defender and broadcaster Mam Sonando.

IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group protests government appointments at media outlets, as well as mounting attacks on journalists, writers and artists.

PEN International is asking you to download special postcards it created to help free Syrian poets Dia’a Al-Abdulla and Tal Al-Mallouhi and honour the late poet and singer Ibrahim Qashoush.

Leading up to the 10 October, 2012 appeal, tell the Russian authorities to release Russian punk band Pussy Riot members who were found guilty of “hooliganism,” and sentenced to two years in jail.

Three members of the punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail for “hooliganism”, in a case IFEX members say is a blow to free expression in Russia.

A group of 46 human rights organisations led by IFEX calls on member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council to urge Bahrain to release human rights defenders and peaceful opposition activists.