Vigilance for Democracy and the Civic State

Tunisian organizations call on Moroccan authorities to immediately release the editor of independent newspaper “Akhbar Al-Youm”, Slimane Raissouni, and to stop detaining journalists under fabricated charges.

The signatory associations warn against the dangers of this initiative to amend the law. It constitutes a new episode in a long-running soap opera, intended to make the media landscape more chaotic, and subject to domination by certain parties and political and financial pressure groups.

48 NGOs and professional groups say the draft law restricts freedom of expression and independent broadcasting.

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.

A joint statement by the Association of Progressive Communications, IFEX and 64 co-signatories at the UN-HRC 36 warns of the threat to human rights posed by recent attacks on the right to use encryption technology, in Turkey and across the globe.

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