All journalists jailed globally must be freed amid COVID-19 pandemic-CPJ, March 30, 2020 CPJ launches #FreeThePress campaign New York, March 30, 2020 –The Committee to Protect Journalists today launched the #FreeThePress campaign to call for the unconditional release of all jailed journalists to ensure their safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past four years, CPJ’s annual census has found a record high […]
Urgent action needed to prevent COVID-19 “rampaging through places of detention” – Bachelet - GENEVA (25 March 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on governments to take urgent action to protect the health and safety of people in detention and other closed facilities, as part of overall efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. “Covid-19 has begun to strike prisons, jails and […]
Physical, emotional and digital protection while using home as office in times of COVID-19-Front Line Defenders, March 27, 2020 Ideas & tips for human rights defenders A global pandemic is a new situation for all of us. Most of us already are or soon may be forced to start working remotely. Many will use their home as an office. In some places, there is no doubt this […]
Vietnamese Well-known Facebooker Threatened with Heavy Punishment For Disseminating News on Covid-19-Defend the Defenders, March 28, 2020 Vietnam’s communist regime has threatened to impose hard punishment on a well-known Facebooker coded Đ.N.Q for “disseminating fake news on Covid-19 which causes social disorders amid increasing crackdown on online government critics. The Ministry of Public Security has said on its website that the Department of Cyber Security […]
Bộ Công an đã xử lý hơn 300 trường hợp đưa tin sai sự thật về dịch COVID-19-RFA, ngày 26/3/2020 Cục An ninh mạng và Phòng chống Tội phạm Sử dụng Công nghệ cao thuộc Bộ Công an Việt Nam cho biết hơn 300 trên gần 700 trường hợp bị cho đưa tin sai sự thật về dịch bệnh COVID-19 trên mạng xã hội trong 2 tháng qua đã bị cơ […]
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