Freedom and Repression

A draft law under consideration since 2023, meant to update Lebanon’s outdated Publications Law, could instead upend free...

Human Rights Watch warns that Yemen’s warring parties are detaining, torturing and assassinating journalists, seizing media...

One of Turkey’s biggest media and education groups is placed under state trusteeship as authorities pursue sweeping...

In the latest chapter of a decades-long human rights crisis, Egypt’s campaign to suppress dissent has escalated with the...

Violence outside a Tbilisi mayoral campaign office left journalists beaten and protesters injured, as reporters said police...

In Kyrgyzstan, authorities are no longer just reacting to stories — they are trying to stop them before they are told,...

A veteran journalist thought she survived the siege of Sarajevo unscathed — but in recent weeks, horrific stories emerging...

Sentences handed down to Agius, Vella, and their associates mark a decisive moment in Malta’s efforts to secure justice for...

The Iranian regime has launched a fresh wave of intimidation against exiled Iranian journalists and their families back...

A relentless crackdown over the past 18 months has eradicated any semblance of independent media from authoritarian...

Ten human rights organizations released a joint statement calling on Kyrgyz authorities to end the crackdown on independent...

Georgia’s independent media and civil society groups are refusing to register under the new, stricter version of the...