Citizens argue that voting cannot bring legitimacy or stability when accountability for past crimes remains unresolved.

Despite African Union diplomacy, attacks on schools, hospitals, and markets continue, leaving South Sudanese civilians ...

This statement was originally published on cijmalaysia.net on 17 January 2026.

Human rights defender and journalist Kamel Labidi is remembered for advancing media reform, defending imprisoned activists, and for his leadership of IFEX member Vigilance for Democracy and the Civic ...

Following her reporting on alleged plagiarism in Justice Minister Radu Marinescu's PhD thesis, Șercan was attacked by politicians and received hundreds of threating and intimidatory messages on social ...

The most commonly identified threat was Russia's invasion of Ukraine, followed by the President's Office and anonymous Telegram channels.

The spread of AI-driven surveillance technologies in public spaces marks a clear shift in how the state surveils its citizens today.

Roshaan Khattak, filmmaker, human rights activist, and post-graduate researcher at the University of Cambridge, has been receiving death threats allegedly linked to Pakistan’s intelligence service ...

Almost two years after a court ordered protections for journalists, the Nigerian government is asking for extra time to challenge the ruling instead of implementing it.

Uganda's most recent internet shutdown was engineered to quiet dissent, fracture everyday life, and weaken collective political agency.

Uganda's pre-election internet shutdown effectively froze mobile money, halted online trade, and stripped informal and gig workers of income at the most politically sensitive moment of the year.

IMI has recorded 870 crimes against journalists and media in Ukraine committed by Russia since the beginning of the invasion.