January 28, 2025 – Tajikistan – Tajikistan is intensifying its crackdown on independent media, with recent developments marking a dramatic escalation under President Emomali Rahmon’s authoritarian […]
December 10, 2024 – Azerbaijan – Following its high-profile hosting of the COP29 climate summit, Azerbaijan has launched a sweeping crackdown on independent journalism, drawing widespread […]
November 28, 2024 – Kazakhstan – Investigative journalist Daniyar Adilbekov was handed a harsh 4½‑year prison sentence on October 18, 2024, by the Astana interdistrict court, convicted under […]
November 25, 2024 – Lebanon/USA – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has concluded that the Israeli airstrike on October 25, 2024, which killed three journalists in southern […]
October 22, 2024 – Iran – Iran’s Revolutionary Courts have intensified efforts to silence journalists reporting on human rights and protests, notably those covering the Mahsa Amini […]