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October 17, 2018 Report

Turkey: End Prosecutions For ‘Insulting President’

Students on Trial Despite Right to Free Speech

The graduation ceremony at Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, July 6. 2018. The banner carried by students accused of insulting Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is among the hundreds laid out at the ceremony.
October 15, 2018 News Release

EU: Oppose Hungary’s Rejection of EU Values

Foreign Ministers Should Invoke Article 7 to Support Rule of Law

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September 26, 2018 Dispatches

Germany’s Message to Erdoğan

Free Journalists, Rights Defenders, Politicians Jailed in Turkey

From left to right: Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak
September 24, 2018 News Release

Bangladesh: New Law Will Silence Critics

Digital Security Act is Overly Broad, Ripe for Abuse

Bangladesh's President Abdul Hamid (3rd R) and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (2nd L) walk near female members of the Bangladesh army at the national parade ground in Dhaka on December 16, 2015.
September 14, 2018 News Release

Thailand: Election Countdown Begins

Lift Restrictions on Fundamental Rights to Enable Free and Fair Elections

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September 12, 2018 News Release

Cambodia: Free All Political Prisoners

Profiles of Wrongfully Held Activists, Journalists, Opposition Members

Activist Tep Vanny at the Supreme Court after it upheld a decision to deny her bail, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 25, 2017.
September 10, 2018 News Release

Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Rights Campaigner

Brotherhood for Democracy Member on Trial

Nguyen Trung Truc hold a sign, “Condemn the Vietnamese Communist for terrorizing Pastor [Nguyen Trung] Ton”
September 7, 2018 News Release

Thailand: Drop Cases for Online Reporting on Alleged Rape

Computer Crime Charges Threaten Media Coverage of Abuses

September 6, 2018 Commentary

The Crushing of the Free Press in Myanmar

Kyaw Soe Oo carries his daughter while escorted by police outside a court in Yangon, Myanmar, June 18, 2018.
September 3, 2018 News Release

Myanmar: 7 Years for Reporting the Truth

Conviction of Reuters Journalists a Major Setback for Press Freedom

Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo sit beside police officers as they leave Insein court in Yangon, Myanmar July 9, 2018.
August 29, 2018 Commentary

Another Journalist Expelled – As China’s Abuses Grow, Who Will See Them?

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August 22, 2018 News Release

Vietnam: Activists Beaten in Concert Raid

Investigate Assaults Against Dissidents

Row 1: Pham Doan Trang before and after the attack, and the broken helmet that was thrown by the side of the road after the beating  Row 2: Nguyen Tin in a fund-raising event for political prisoner Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh ("Mother Mushroom") and after the a
August 9, 2018 Dispatches

Maldives President’s Comments Raise Questions Over Missing Blogger’s Fate

On Fourth Anniversary of Rilwan Ahmed’s Disappearance, Concerns of a Cover-Up

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August 9, 2018 News Release

Turkmenistan: UN Blames Government for Activist’s Death

Carry out Ruling in Muradova Case

Ogulsapar Muradova in the mid-1990s
August 6, 2018 Dispatches

Indonesia’s Papua Media Blacklist

Authorities Equate Journalism with Doing “Something Wrong to Indonesia”

Indonesia's President-elect Joko Widodo (C) speaks with journalists at city hall in Jakarta, August 12, 2014.

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