The Committee to Protect Journalists says awarding Dawit Isaak the Edelstam Prize sends a strong message to Eritrean authorities that are holding at least 16 journalists without trial, access to family, or judicial oversight.
Uganda, Tanzania and Angola are some of the African countries where citizens have been convicted of insulting presidents through remarks on TikTok, reflecting the increasing crackdown of dissent on social media.
In light of the Erisco Foods versus Chioma Okoli case, legal experts have been calling the law — meant to regulate online activity — into question.
Many consider this to be the latest in President John Magufuli's ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression in the country.
It's being called the 'worst crime' against a Cameroonian journalist in the past decade by rights groups.
Sowore, the organizer of Nigeria's #RevolutionNow protests, was detained by armed officers, once again, in court on Friday.
The popular YouTuber posted a video wherein he criticizes King Mohammed VI—an inviolable law according to the kingdom's constitution.
The rapper was reportedly targeted after releasing a viral music video that spoke out against government corruption.
Nigerians are saying no to the 'Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulation Bill' that they say will give the government the power to silence them.
The comedian says his now viral face-swap photo of the president was not ill-intended.
Playfully photoshopping pictures of the president can apparently get you arrested for a cybercrime.
Independent journalist Hajar Raissouni, who received a prison sentence for an alleged abortion that she claimed was a political setup to censor her writing, has been pardoned by the King of Morocco.
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