World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers

In Kenya, one project uses an Android application to allow citizen journalists to upload their news reports to a website, where readers can then view the entire stream of content, or filter stories according to various categories and regions.

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

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.

As Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly prepares to review a draft Constitution, the IFEX-TMG expresses its concern about a draft proposal to regulate the media, as well as prison sentences for religious reasons.

The declaration identifies criminal defamation and ‘insult’ laws as among the most severe obstacles to the future of the independent press in Africa.

This report, Spring into Winter? Fragile achievements and exceptional challenges for Tunisian free expression defenders, outlines the status of freedom of expression and association as well as the independence of the judiciary.

IFEX-TMG is deeply concerned by the prevailing uncertainty and obstruction that have led the independent media body, INRIC, to close its doors; in addition to a smear campaign against INRIC and its President.

The Supreme Court of Justice has upheld a US$2.2 million-dollar fine against the Globovisión TV station and ordered the freezing of US$5.7 million dollars of the station’s assets.