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IFEX Asia brief: October and November 2023

By admin | October 31, 2024

October 2023: Elusive justice: Combatting election disinformation and impunity; journalists freed in China and Afghanistan. As the world prepares to mark another International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, on 2 November, the fight against impunity continues in the Philippines and Pakistan. Cheng Lei returns home to Australia, Mortaza Behboudi walks free in […]

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Solidarity, action, and remembering: The fight against impunity in Asia

By admin | November 1, 2023

Impunity persists across Asia, as states fail to provide adequate protection to journalists. This was the common message of Asia-based civil society groups that marked the International Day to End Impunity (IDEI) for Crimes Against Journalists on 2 November by highlighting the efforts of so many stakeholders to counter attacks against the media and hold […]

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Philippine Judges and Lawyers Push Back Against Red-Tagging

By admin | June 23, 2023

Written for The Diplomat Lawyers, judges, law schools, and even the Supreme Court of the Philippines have issued separate statements expressing support for a Manila judge who was vilified and threatened online for dismissing a government petition seeking to proscribe the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army, and National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) as […]

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Duterte’s ‘War on Drugs’ in the Philippines: By the Numbers

By admin | February 27, 2017

The Philippine police has released some statistics confirming the extensive reach of the government’s “war on drugs.” Dubbed as “Project Double Barrel Alpha,” the anti-drug campaign is a top priority of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, who assumed power last July 1. Could this mean more deaths, arrests, police visits, and extrajudicial killings until […]

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