The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the Ethiopian government's decision to allow access to 264 websites, including news outlets and blogs, that were blocked in the country.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Ghanaian member of parliament Kennedy Agyapong to stop threatening investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and those perceived as close to his undercover investigative film about corruption and football in Ghana.
The Bangkok South Criminal Court has overturned its previous conviction of Andy Hall, a British human rights defender found guilty of criminal defamation for his work on the abuse of migrant workers’ rights in Thailand. .
Restrictions on freedom of expression, assembly and association are incompatible with the conduct of a credible electoral process in Turkey, says the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.