Recent legal battles highlight a troubling trend in South Africa, where journalists are increasingly targeted with harassment suits aimed at silencing them.

Prosecution of "Mada Masr"'s editor, denial of union rights, and website blocks show an escalating crackdown on independent journalism in Egypt.

Despite sustained pushback from civil society and digital rights groups, Zambia has enacted sweeping cyber laws that threaten fundamental freedoms under the guise of countering terrorism and ...

The scandal around Uganda’s tech-driven Express Penalty Scheme revealed deep failures in digital public infrastructure governance from opaque foreign contracts, to unsafe data practices.

"Across India, a quiet purge of digital content is underway." This statement was originally published on indexoncensorship.org on 23 July 2025. Journalism critical of the government is vanishing from ...

The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) is alarmed by the recent detention of at least seven journalists and media activists across Kabul and other provinces, marking a significant escalation in ...

France's court dropped Assad's warrant citing immunity, but rights groups stress the ruling still clears a path for future accountability.

"As Belarusian authorities extend the crackdown into online spaces with increasing pace and severity, they are actively policing speech and dismantling social bonds that sustain civic resistance" - ...

Tech companies like GoFundMe are playing a direct role in silencing Palestinian voices and hindering solidarity efforts, raising serious human rights concerns.

Journalist Alfousseini Togo was handed an eight-month suspended sentence along with a fine after challenging official claims about public trust in Mali's judiciary.

Authorities in Mali have detained ex-premier Moussa Mara, accusing him of "undermining the credibility of the state" after he publicly shared accounts of visits to political prisoners.

Rights groups say articles on defamation, insult, and influencing judicial independence pose a direct threat to media freedom, the safety of journalists, and the right to freedom of expression.