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March 31, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Basic Rights Still a Pipe Dream in Angola

Some of the 17 activists who have been sentenced to jail terms of between two and eight years, after prosecutors introduced a new charge of “criminal conspiracy," Angola, 2015.
March 25, 2016 News Release

Turkey: Journalists’ Trial Closed to Public

Ruling Undermines Defendants’ Rights

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Turkey: Journalism on Trial

End Prosecution of Newspaper Editor and Ankara Bureau Chief

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Dispatches - Media Freedom Under Threat in Kenya

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Dispatches: Afghanistan Journalists’ Worsening Reporting Perils

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Dispatches: Is Azerbaijan the Company the EU Wants to Keep?

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Bangladesh: Charging Editors Is Dramatic Backslide

Repeal Abusive Criminal Defamation and Sedition Laws

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US, EU Should Urgently Raise Abuses

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A Law Beyond Improvement

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Turkish Activists look to Germany for Support on Rights Crackdown

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Dispatches: Protecting Afghanistan’s Journalists

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Need International Pressure to Free Rights Defenders

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Central Asia: Backsliding on Rights

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