Online Speech
Online comments, social media posts, and blogs are subject to restrictive laws aimed at silencing dissent and policing online speech. Bloggers, journalists, and private citizens have suffered the consequences, such as through unfair prosecutions. TrialWatch is monitoring cases in which charges have been brought for something as simple as a Facebook post criticizing the government.
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Reforms of Indonesia’s Cyberlaw Are Inadequate, Say TrialWatch and ICJR
During its upcoming review of Indonesia, the United Nations Human Rights Committee should push Indonesia to explain why touted reforms to limit the abuse of its cyberlaw have failed,...
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Section 20 of Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act: Urgent Reforms Needed
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Russian Federation vs. Alexander Pichugin
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Government of Thailand & Chaiwat Limlikhitaksorn v. Wuth Boonlert & Samak Donnapee
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Tunisia vs. Emna Chargui
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Kazakhstan v. Alnur Ilyashev
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