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Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan.   Pakistan’s information and freedom of speech landscape has steadily narrowed over the past several years as the state began systematically removing independent voices from television channels and newspaper columns. In response, many journalists turned to digital platforms—primarily YouTube—to continue reporting on [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called for the Indian government to institute “transparency and due process” when imposing social media restrictions, following numerous international news organizations reporting that their X accounts had been blocked in India due to a “legal demand” from the evening of July 5 to July 7. CPJ’s representative [...]

Human Rights Watch said in its submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Monday that UN member states should use the upcoming review of Vietnam’s record on civil and political rights to pressure the country’s government to end its crackdown on dissenting speech and other fundamental human rights. In its submission, Human Rights [...]

One year down the line, and the streets of Nairobi are still marred with the blood of youth protesters and activists. As Kenyans mark a year after the 2024 Finance Bill protest, a day to remember the souls that succumbed to police brutality then, the degree of police brutality and the lack of government accountability [...]

At the 59th session of the Human Rights Council Thursday, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights stated that the procurement and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems by states and businesses must comply with international human rights standards, warning that failure could lead to serious rights violations. UN experts noted a [...]

Edited by: Alanah Vargas, JURIST Staff The Age of Digital Harm We are living in a time when personal dignity is just a click away from violation. The ease with which deepfakes, intimate photos, and AI-generated information can be produced, disseminated, and used as weapons has made the internet a minefield, especially for marginalised people, [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) emphasized on Friday that journalists in Malta remain at risk following the conviction of two individuals for supplying a bomb that killed an investigative journalist in 2017. Head of the RSF European Union and Balkans desk Pavol Szalai called the convictions “undeniable progress in the quest for justice,” but noted that [...]

In an advisory opinion published Thursday, the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said Hungary infringed European law by restricting access to LGBTQ+ content. Tamara Ćapeta stated that Hungary has deviated from the EU’s values and recommended the CJEU find that the nation infringed Article 2 of the Treaty [...]

Watchdog group American Oversight filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Education, alleging that President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully targeted Harvard University’s tax-exempt status for political retaliation. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks [...]

Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday proposed a bill that would impose sweeping restrictions on organizations seen as threats to national sovereignty. The bill expands the powers of the controversial Sovereignty Protection Office (SPO) and tightens government control over civil society, including nonprofits, advocacy groups, independent media, and other community actors that operate independently from the government. [...]