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Jan 7, 2025 | 
accessnow.org | Eliška Pírková |Aymen Zaghdoudi |Agneris Sampieri
Communications and search platforms like Facebook or Google have become crucial spaces for civic discourse and access to information. But they have also become powerful tools for commercial exploitation, political manipulation, silencing, and control.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
accessnow.org | Aymen Zaghdoudi
Next month, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) looks set to adopt a new convention on cybercrime; despite myriad warnings from civil society that, as it stands, the convention poses serious threats to digital rights worldwide.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
article19.org | Aymen Zaghdoudi
This week marks one year since Jordan’s new draconian Cybercrime Law entered into force. This law has proven to be a tool for state repression, stifling dissent and curtailing the human rights of individuals online, including the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and privacy.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
accessnow.org | Aymen Zaghdoudi
In Saudi Arabia, expressing yourself online is extremely dangerous. Numerous bloggers, dissidents, and women’s rights defenders have faced unjust prosecution, harsh prison sentences, and travel bans simply for expressing dissent and standing up for human rights. This digital repression is set to get even worse. Saudi authorities have recently proposed two laws that, if enacted, would further restrict free expression online, even potentially silencing people outside Saudi Arabia.
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
accessnow.org | Aymen Zaghdoudi
Read in Arabic / للقراءة بالعربية While freedom of expression is one of the most important gains of the Tunisian revolution, it is on the verge of decay due to the serious deterioration Tunisia is witnessing at political, economic, and social levels, especially after the President of the Republic declared on July 25, 2021 a “state of exception”, invoking emergency powers, dissolving the parliament, abolishing the constitution, and claiming legislative power, which has enabled him to issue...
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
accessnow.org | Aymen Zaghdoudi
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
accessnow.org | Marwa Fatafta |Aymen Zaghdoudi
16 March 2023 | 2:10 am للقراءة بالانجليزية / Read in Englishفي 16 مارس 2023إلى مجلس هيئة الإعلام والاتصالات بغداد، العراقالموضوع: حول مشروع لائحة تنظيم المحتوى الرقميتحية طيبة،نحن المنظمات الموقعة أدناه نود أن نعبر عن قلقنا البالغ بخصوص مشروع لائحة تنظيم المحتوى الرقمي في العراق بسبب ما تضمنته من أحكام قانونية خطيرة من شأنها تهديد الحق في حرية الرأي والتعبير والتضييق على الحريات في الفضاء العام الرقمي بصفة عامة.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
accessnow.org | Marwa Fatafta |Aymen Zaghdoudi |Kassem Mnejja
16 March 2023 | 2:10 am Access Now and eleven partner organizations call for Iraqi authorities to immediately withdraw the draconian draft regulation for digital content before it is manipulated to quash freedom of expression, or criminalize investigative journalism.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
accessnow.org | Marwa Fatafta |Aymen Zaghdoudi
16 March 2023 | 2:10 am Read in Arabic / للقراءة بالعربية March 16, 2023 To the Communications and Media Commission of Iraq (CMC) Baghdad, Iraq Subject: Regarding the Draft Regulation No. 1 of 2023 for Digital Content in Iraq Dear members of the Board of Commissioners, We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are writing to express our deep concern regarding the recently leaked draft Regulation No. 1 of 2023 for Digital Content in Iraq introduced by the Commission, which contains...
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Mar 8, 2023 | 
accessnow.org | Marwa Fatafta |Aymen Zaghdoudi |Kassem Mnejja
8 March 2023 | 4:27 am Lire en Arabe / للقراءة بالعربية Lire en Anglais / Read in English Les organisations de défense des droits humains soussignées réitèrent leur appel aux autorités marocaines pour qu’elles mettent immédiatement fin à la persécution et à la détention de l’éminent rédacteur en chef d’un journal indépendant, Taoufik Bouachrine, et de dizaines de journalistes et défenseurs des droits humains marocains emprisonnés uniquement pour avoir exercé pacifiquement leur droit à la...
