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🇦🇫 #Afghanistan: Authorities have not explained why journalist Khairullah Parhar has been detained or where he was taken. ow.ly/MPFS50MBGjH
🇮🇳 #India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ordered Twitter and YouTube to block clips of a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ow.ly/SYi650MBGhA
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🇨🇳 #China: "condemns the arrest of four Chinese journalists following the protests against the zero-Covid policy in China and calls for the release of the two still detained."
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#Bangladesh: Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Raghunath Kha and investigate allegations that he was electrocuted and beaten in police custody.
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#Afghanistan🇦🇫: Freelance journalist Khairullah Parhar has been detained by the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) since January 9 in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan.
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#Pakistan🇵🇰: The Women’s Media Forum, Pakistan has been launched to take forward grassroots work on gender equity, labour rights and journalists’ safety, with a cohort of highly talented and dynamic women journalists from across the country. Meet the five regional coordinators 👇
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The politics of revenge and tit for tat is going on in the country with zero acknowledgment of increasing crimes against women and children. 3 days back a girl was violently killed by her father in name of so called honor after her dance video became viral on social media.
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Indian Government App Exposed Children’s Personal Data
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"Women who have expressed views on social media opposing military rule in #Myanmar are being subjected to abuse, including calls for their arrest and threats of violence, rape and death by pro-military online users, a study has found."
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APHR member and Thai MP : In Thailand, defamation laws are being used for lawfare.
LIVE: fb.watch/iiZpdzQXll/
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Opposition parties issued a joint statement on Fri calling for justice system reform and the release of all political prisoners. The move came after activists Tawan and Bam have been on hunger strike for ten days now. #Thailand #WhatsHappeningInThailand #KE #ยกเลิก112 #ตะวันแบม
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The #HumanRightsWatch (HRW) report on India is an overview, entailing the judicial, political and governmental actions that protected or stripped away civic rights, in 2022.
Click to read what the report says⬇️
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Editorial Tips!
AMDISS in collaboration with local media houses including SAMA FM, Bakhita, Top FM, EBC, Almoghif Newspaper started an in-house training to enhance Editorial skills, management and sustainability. we thank for the support.
In August 2019, authorities arrested and detained Jalingo on defamation and anti-state charges over his writings and social media posts about Governor Ayade.
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🇮🇩 #Indonesia: calls on all journalists in #Papua to not be afraid and not to give up on voicing the truth amidst various obstacles.
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Calls for #Bahrain to be pressed to release human rights activist irishtimes.com/world/middle-e #Ireland #DKPol #FreeAlKhawaja
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🇰🇭 Civil society groups said that "by blocking the video, the Cambodian authorities have once again chosen to silence freedom of expression and censor the work of civil society." ow.ly/K2vA50MzVX5
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Russia outlaws Meduza in attempt to stamp out independent news #pressfreedom
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🇪🇬 #Egypt: calls on authorities to immediately release journalist Ahmed Montasir, detained on false news charges:
🇩🇿 #Algeria: 16 media publishers & editors from 14 countries, including Nobel peace laureate Dmitry Muratov, call on Algerian authorities to release imprisoned media director . ow.ly/8O4650MBe1I
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🇧🇭 #Bahrain: It has been a staggering year and a half since imprisoned human rights defender Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace began his #HungerStrike. IFEX and rights groups renew calls for his immediate release. 🔴 ow.ly/nUal50MBcGm #FreeAlSingace
"We condemn the step-by-step censorship of Azattyk and we call on the authorities to stop harassing independent media” -
Kyrgyz Ministry of Culture seeks closure of independent Radio Azattyk
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🇲🇦 #Morocco: hails end to European Parliament’s silence on the decline of press freedom in Morocco and calls for releasing imprisoned journalists.
#Lebanon: CPJ is alarmed by reports that the ministry of justice in Lebanon is planning to sue website on “false news” charges. CPJ calls on the authorities to allow members of the press to do their jobs freely to report on the Beirut’s port explosion probe.
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أفادت الوكالة الوطنية للإعلام بأن وزارة العدل ستدّعي على منصّة "ميغافون" بحجة نشرها "خبراً كاذباً". إن هذه الخطوة، إن حصلت، لا تمسّ حرّية التعبير وحدها، بل تأتي كمحاولة للضغط المستمرّ على الإعلام والمنصّات المستقلّة التي أثبتت دورها في تقديم المعلومات الدقيقة وغير المسيّسة.
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مجموعة العمل المصرية: أزمة حقوق الإنسان في #مصر تتطلب إرادة سياسية لمعالجتها بدلًا من المبادرات الشكلية التي تستهدف فقط تحسين الصورة أمام المجتمع الدولي. #أزمة_متعمدة #UPR
التقرير:
cihrs.org/egypt-crisis-b
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In a trial unprecedented in #Finland🇫🇮's post-war history, 3 journalists of risk 18 months in prison for revealing state secrets. RSF will be present in Helsinki for delivery of the verdict this Friday. Ranked 5th in #Index, Finland must remain a world #pressfreedom leader.
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Procès sans précédent dans l'histoire d'après-guerre de la #Finlande : 3 journalistes de risquent 18mois de prison pour avoir révélé des secrets d'État. RSF sera à Helsinki pour le prononcé du verdict le 27/01. Le pays doit rester un leader mondial de la #libertédelapresse.
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Editor-at-Large & British-Russian author will be discussing the paradoxes of exile, vagaries of censorship, as well as the Russian war in #Ukraine.
📅 Wed, 8 Feb ⏰ 7-8.30pm
📍 , London or online
pushkinhouse.org/events/zinovy-
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#Belarusian authorities should publicly disclose the reason for the arrests of journalists Dzmitry Harbunou and Pavel Padabed and ensure that no journalists are jailed for their work
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"By labelling the foundation 'undesirable,' the Kremlin is also ostracizing Sakharov’s legacy &, essentially, all the human rights defenders, independent journalists, activists, pro-democracy scientists & cultural figures associated with it in #Russia"
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"#Kyrgyzstan was hitherto seen as an exception in Central Asia, one with relative press freedom, but it is now taking a worrying authoritarian turn" -
Kyrgyz Ministry of Culture seeks closure of independent Radio Azattyk ifex.org/kyrgyz-ministr
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#Colombia . indaga en los problemas que plantea el #ciberpatrullaje en materia de derechos humanos web.karisma.org.co/el-estado-moni