Articles by Vigilance for Democracy and the Civic State
![Detained on Manus Island (from left): Behrouz Boochani, Eaten Fish and Mehdi Savari, Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/manus-island-campaign.jpg)
Australia: Free expression detained?
25 IFEX members question Australia’s detention of dissident journalists, cartoonists and actors at Manus Island.
![The Douma 4: Samira Al-Khalil, Nazim Hammadi, Razan Zaitouneh and Wa’el Hamada](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/douma-4.jpg)
Three years on and no word on Douma’s missing activists
The prominent Syrian human rights defenders Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Al-Khalil, Wa’el Hamada and Nazim Hammadi remain missing three years after armed men abducted them.
![The Douma 4: Samira Al-Khalil, Nazim Hammadi, Razan Zaitouneh and Wa’el Hamada](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/douma-4.jpg)
Three years on and no word on Douma’s missing activists
The prominent Syrian human rights defenders Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Al-Khalil, Wa’el Hamada and Nazim Hammadi remain missing three years after armed men abducted them.
![Imprisoned journalist Faisal Hayyat](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/faisalbahrain.jpg)
Bahrain must cease judicial harassment of Faisal Hayyat and other Bahraini journalists
48 human rights organizations have signed a letter asking King Hamad to cease its judicial harassment of human rights defenders and its violation of their right to freedom of expression.
![Journalists carry Yahya Qallash, head of the Egyptian press syndicate, during a protest against restrictions on the press in front of the Egyptian Press Syndicate's headquarters in downtown Cairo, Egypt May 4, 2016, REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/rtsshku.jpg)
A new low point for Sisi’s Egypt?
After two years of prosecuting journalists for everything, from “spreading false news” to “participating in a gathering”, Egypt is now taking aim at a new target in its fight against dissent.
![Journalists carry Yahya Qallash, head of the Egyptian press syndicate, during a protest against restrictions on the press in front of the Egyptian Press Syndicate's headquarters in downtown Cairo, Egypt May 4, 2016, REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/rtsshku.jpg)
A new low point for Sisi’s Egypt?
After two years of prosecuting journalists for everything, from “spreading false news” to “participating in a gathering”, Egypt is now taking aim at a new target in its fight against dissent.
![The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Wikimedia](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/turkey_nationalassembly.jpg)
Parliament must defend health of Turkish democracy
Over 40 organisations call for Turkey’s national assembly to end the national state of emergency, extended for three months on October 19th.
![Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 22, 2016., REUTERS/Chris Watte](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/likeqiang__641x362_cropped_final.jpg)
Canada must prioritise free expression rights in relationship with China
IFEX members call on Prime Minister Trudeau to put human rights, especially free expression and press freedom, at the heart of the Canada-China relationship.