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#Peru 🇵🇪 - "I call on all parties to maintain calm and to refrain from using violence during ongoing #protests. I urge authorities to respect international standards to guarantee and protect the right to #PeacefulAssembly and open dialogue with protesters to address their legitimate demands." - Clement Voule, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly
#HongKong 🇭🇰 : RSF relieved that following the release of Patrick Lam last month, second #StandNews chief editor Chung Pui-Kuen, was released on bail today almost a year after his arrest for alleged sedition. RSF calls on the #HongKong government to drop all charges against them.
video via 🐦 @XinqiSu
Take a look at the lives, work, and sacrifices of some of the people portrayed in IFEX's Faces of Free Expression series. They serve as a powerful reminder of the indivisible links between #FreedomOfExpression and #HumanRights
🇺🇾 Medio digital uruguayo y su director denuncian censura privada: #Google elimina de su buscador dos artículos periodísticos que vinculan estudios jurídicos con lavado de activos.
En Internet no poder encontrarla, es igual que borrarla.
Más info de lo que pasó acá 👉
https://www.observacom.org/medio-digital-uruguayo-y-su-director-denuncian-censura-privada-google-elimina-de-su-buscador-dos-articulos-periodisticos-que-vinculan-estudios-juridicos-con-lavado-de-activos/
El medio digital Sudestada recibió dos notificaciones de Google advirtiendo que se habían eliminado artículos periodísticos de los resultados de su buscador (desindexación). Ambas fueron en el plazo de una semana, lo que muestra una intención deliberada de denunciantes anónimos de silenciar información de interés público. La primera notificación por...
At the beginning of 2022, CSOs reported that the number of political prisoners in #Belarus 🇧🇾 - often referred to as Europe's last dictatorship - had reached 1,000. In November, the Viasna Human Rights Centre reported this has grown to 1,445 and counting.
We reiterate our support to #journalists, #activists, #HumanRights defenders & other Belarusians that have been unjustly imprisoned for exercising their rights 🙅 #StandWithBelarus
https://ifex.org/repression-and-resistance-in-belarus-a-monthly-chronology/
🧵 23 November marks the 13th anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre when 58 people including 32 journalists were killed in a politically-motivated attack in the #Philippines. It was the single deadliest attack on journalists in the world.
#AmpatuanMassacre #EndImputnity #JournalismIsNotACrime #journalism
From the @ifex Council meeting in Madrid: Freedom for Alaa, freedom for all political prisoners! We demand #proofoflife! via @jilliancyork
On International Day to End Impunity & 10 years after the launch of the #UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists, #journalists are still being attacked and killed for their work.
They cannot wait another 10 years before States turn their words into action and break this dismal tradition of impunity. ⌛️
World leaders and UN agencies step up. Raise your hands and your voices if you are NOT ok with this! ⏰
#Journalism #NoImpunity #Media #Democracy #PressFreedom #FreedomOfExpression
