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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned Bangladesh on Saturday for not taking adequate safeguards to protect Bangladeshi journalists during elections and provided recommendations to journalists to protect themselves while working. Bangladesh underwent its 12th parliamentary election with army deployment on January 7 in 300 seats and reported a turnout of 40 percent. RSF decried the lack [...]

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko assented on Wednesday to comprehensive amendments to the law “On the President of the Republic of Belarus,” which tightened the requirements for a presidential candidate within the country. Under the amended law, only a person aged 40 years or older, who is a citizen of the Republic of Belarus by [...]

Multiple opposition presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rejected the provisional election results Sunday, which incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi was announced to have won, and urged supporters to mobilize. Martin Fayulu, the leader of the Engagement for Citizenship and Development party, in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), rejected the [...]

In its annual report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) revealed that 45 journalists were killed in line with their work in 2023, marking the lowest total since 2002. The report also revealed that 54 journalists were held hostage, 84 remain missing and 521 are currently detained. The report identified varying trends contributing to these numbers, such [...]

Amnesty International released a report Thursday alleging the targeted use of Pegasus spyware against prominent Indian journalists, rekindling apprehensions about government surveillance and press freedom in the country, following the 2021 Pegasus project disclosures that sent shockwaves through India. The report specifically highlights the cases of Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of The Wire, and Anand [...]

The Washington Post (WP) reported Wednesday that following Apple’s October alert about alleged government hacking attempts on iPhones of independent Indian journalists and opposition politicians, Indian government officials swiftly retaliated against Apple. It is reported that officials of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the ruling party, hurried to contain the fallout after journalists and politicians [...]

In recent weeks, the international community has been confronted with a deeply alarming crisis unfolding in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. On October 7th, 2023, the Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya , “Hamas,” and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), initiated an attack on the State of Israel, which reportedly resulted in the killing of 1,400 individuals with [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Tuesday that there had been an “extensive failure” by Russia to protect the safety and human rights of civilians in Ukraine. Türk’s remarks came during a speech at an ‘interactive dialogue’ hosted by the UN OHCHR. The high commissioner largely referenced an OHCHR report entitled “Situation [...]

Al Jazeera announced Saturday that it planned to file a war crimes complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel after the death of Al Jazeera news photographer Samer Abu Daqqa in Gaza in a Friday drone strike, which has been alleged to have been carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). In [...]

UK Baroness Michelle Mone,  a Scottish businesswoman and a Conservative Party-appointed life peer who later left the party, admitted in an interview with the BBC published on Sunday that she stands to benefit from millions of pounds of profit received by personal protective equipment (PPE) company PPE Medpro, which had a contract with the UK [...]