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May 18, 2018 Dispatches

In Thailand, No Justice 8 Years After Crackdown

Policymakers, Soldiers Escape Accountability for Violence Against ‘Red Shirts’

On August 30, 2017, Phayao Akhard wears the bloody nurses gown worn by her daughter, nurse Kamolkate “Kate” Akhard, when she was killed by Thai Special Forces soldiers while tending wounded persons at the front of Wat Pathum temple on May 19, 2010.
May 16, 2018 News Release

Bangladesh: Skirting the Issues at the UN

Periodic Rights Review Response Ignored Main Concerns

Tear gas is seen while police takes their position in the street Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 8, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
May 16, 2018 News Release

Germany/Russia: Merkel To Meet Putin

Chancellor Visiting Amid New Levels of Repression

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the start of the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017
May 15, 2018 News Release

Russia: Repression, Discrimination Ahead of World Cup

FIFA Should Stand Up for Rights One Month Before Kickoff

The Russian and Brazilian football teams play a pre-World Cup international friendly match at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia on March 23, 2018. The FIFA World Cup final will be played at this stadium on July 15 2018. (c) 2018 Ashley Kowalski
May 12, 2018 News Release

Cambodia: Release Ex-Radio Free Asia Journalists

Now Held for Six Months on Politically Motivated Espionage Charges

Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin, former journalists of the Radio Free Asia (RFA), sit inside a police vehicle as they arrive for a bail hearing at the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 19, 2018. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
May 8, 2018 News Release

Cambodia: Coerced Sale of Last Independent Newspaper

Phnom Penh Post Sold to Hun Sen-Linked Company Ahead of July Elections

A man reads the Phnom Penh Post at a coffee shop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 8, 2018.
May 4, 2018 Statement

Mauritania: Mandatory Death Penalty for Blasphemy

Law Passed as Country Hosts African Human Rights Body

Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed.
May 3, 2018 Dispatches

Rising Hostility to Media Threatens Real Democracy

Free Press Uncovers Life’s Hidden Dangers

A member of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines protests outside the presidential palace in Metro Manila, Philippines, January 17, 2018.
May 3, 2018 Dispatches

Kenyan Media Has Little to Celebrate on Press Freedom Day

Authorities Should Allow Open Reporting on Issues of Public Interest

An anti-riot police officer aims a teargas canister while journalists cover an anti-corruption protest in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. November 3, 2016.
May 2, 2018 Dispatches

Journalists Watch from Prison as Myanmar Backslides

Media Under Assault on World Press Freedom Day

Detained and handcuffed Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo carries his daughter Moe Thin Wai Zin while arriving for a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar May 2, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang
April 30, 2018 Dispatches

Relentless Assault on the Philippine Press

Legal Restrictions, Intimidation Seek to Suppress Criticism

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte addresses the resident Filipino community at a convention hall in Singapore, April 28, 2018. REUTERS/Feline Lim
April 30, 2018 Dispatches

Thai Magazine Editor Released After 7 Years

Case Highlights Arbitrary Use of ‘Insulting the Monarchy’ Law

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April 30, 2018 Dispatches

Pain Deepens for Afghanistan’s Media

Suicide Attack Targets First Responders, Journalists

Policemen help Afghan journalists, victims of a second blast, in Kabul, Afghanistan April 30, 2018.
April 27, 2018 News Release

Turkey: Journalists Convicted for Doing Their Jobs

Harsh Sentences for Cumhuriyet Staff in Politically Motivated Case

Press freedom activists read opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet during a demonstration in solidarity with the jailed members of the newspaper outside a courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 28, 2017.
April 20, 2018 Dispatches

‘No Comment’ in Burundi

Debate Silenced at Critical Moment

Logo for Iwacu newspaper, "The voices of Burundi."

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