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Censorship
Cathal Sheerin for IFEX
Crackdowns in Turkey, Azerbaijan continue; new laws stifle media in UK, whistleblowers in Germany; foreign-funded NGOs targeted in Hungary, a Kyrgyz court confirms life sentence for investigative journalist Azimjon Askarov
Access to Information
Human Rights Watch
Malawi’s recently passed information bill could help communities affected by the extractive industries get information about related environmental, health, and safety risks.
Digital Rights
Committee to Protect Journalists
Vietnam should stop treating journalists like criminals, CPJ said, stressing that videographer Nguyen Van Hoa and blogger Tran Thi Nga should be freed immediately, and without charge.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
Human Rights Watch
Kenya South Sudan
26 January 2017
Human Rights Watch
Free Expression & the Law Kyrgyzstan
25 January 2017
Gulf Centre for Human Rights
Committee to Protect Journalists
Gulf Centre for Human Rights
National Union of Somali Journalists
Human Rights Watch
Media Foundation for West Africa
Cameroon Censorship
24 January 2017
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Reporters Without Borders
Germany Digital Rights
23 January 2017
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