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The call to sanction NSO Group comes after credible reports that the company's Pegasus spyware has been repeatedly used by abusive governments to clamp down on peaceful human rights defenders, activists and perceived critics.

Joint NGO letter urging EU targeted sanctions against NSO Group Dear High Representative Borrell, Dear Foreign Ministers of EU member states, We are…

JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has agreed to pardon an academic jailed last month for defamation under a controversial internet law, a minister said, following an outcry from human rights groups who say the law risks curtailing free speech.

Ninety-five groups call on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently denounce and mandate independent investigations into the situation of human rights violations facilitated by the sale, export, transfer, and use of surveillance technology.

Civil society and experts call on Member States of the U.N. HRC to take urgent action regarding abuses facilitated by spyware technologies.

As many as 47 global and Myanmar-based human rights organisations have written to Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, King Harald V and Telenor board chair Gun Waersted.

Pending legislation would require online service providers to remove or block content by government demand.

The people of Myanmar have the right to open, reliable, and secure internet access for all without discrimination. Today, May 31, the #KeepItOn coalition is calling on the military and all public authorities in Myanmar to immediately stop imposing internet shutdowns to infringe on the fundamental rights of people across the country.

[AFP] The capital of Papua province and surrounding areas have been without internet for a month, complicating the media’s efforts to report on the armed conflict in Indonesias easternmost region that has escalated sharply during the same period, press freedom advocates say. The blackout – due to the accidental cutting of a seabed cable, according to the government – began April 30, days after separatist insurgents killed an army general and President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo or...

Local and foreign digital service providers in Indonesia have been granted a six-month grace period to register with the government as mandated by a recent regulation that grants the state sweeping authority to censor digital content.