#SaveDotOrg To Protect Digital Rights: Daily Brief
Plus: living in fear at Colombia-Venezuela border; UN and African Union asked to intervene on behalf of Tanzanian activist; cluster munition attack by Syrian forces kills 12; Cambodia denies opposition leader public hearing; and new move to limit free speech in Qatar.
Several non-governmental groups including Greenpeace, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have protested the possible sale of the “.ORG” internet domain to a private firm, saying the sale could undermine the digital safety of civil society groups.
Armed groups are using brutal force to control people's daily lives in the Colombia-Venezuela border region, a new HRW report has found.
Amid the ongoing repression of opposition and media ahead of the elections in Uganda, opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been arrested on his was to speak on a talk show.
Qatar has amended a penal code which will further limit freedom of expression by sending people to prison for up to 5 years if they spread ‘fake news’.
A missile attack on a school in Syria on January 1, 2020 killed 12 people, including 5 children, HRW has confirmed. The missile was equipped with a banned cluster munition.
Civil society groups in Tanzania have asked the UN and the African Union to intervene on behalf of human rights activist Tito Magoti, who’s had trumped up charges brought against him.
And the Cambodian opposition leader, Kem Sokha, is being denied his right to a public hearing in the fabricated criminal case against him.