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Hakan Tosun died after an extremely violent assault in October 2025. RSF calls on the authorities to do everything they can to establish the motive behind the crime, and whether it was linked to his ...

A new report shows that platforms such as Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn have prioritised their commercial interests over users' rights by complying with government censorship demands in ...

CIPESA has documented reflections spotlighting and celebrating the often-unseen individuals whose work has quietly shaped ...

Forced to uproot their operations to deliver critical reporting from the outside, exiled journalists say they are still being targeted by Nicaragua's state security with covert persuasion, coercion, ...

PEN International condemns the arbitrary detention of journalists in Venezuela and calls on the authorities to immediately release those still imprisoned, to end all forms of intimidation against the ...

A protest over kidnappings in Edo State turned violent, leaving a demonstrator shot and exposing deep tensions between residents and security forces.

Journalists conducting a late-night interview in Rivers State, Nigeria, were violently interrupted by armed men who seized their equipment and halted the broadcast.

SFLCin hopes to have more transparency from this mechanism, with orders being made public on the Grievance Appellate ...

This statement was originally published on afjc.media on 7 January 2026.

Niger's junta has unveiled an all-encompassing security law that could turn everyday civic life into a surveillance and compliance exercise.

The detention of Sarah Bireete days before Uganda’s election signals how state power is being used to neutralise critics rather than protect democratic choice.