The Special Rapporteur and his team are excited to announce the next phase of our project on freedom of expression in the ICT sector. Our questionnaires for States and businesses, and our call for submissions from civil society and other
New Research Tools
We have introduced two new ways to conduct research into the work of the mandate. First, on this site, you can now search all freedom of expression communications that have been sent to governments since late 2010. These are the
Release of Khadija Ismayilova from Prison in Azerbaijan
This morning, California time, I was thrilled to awake to the news of the journalist and activist Khadija Ismayilova’s release from prison in Azerbaijan. As she put it upon release, “my arrest was undertaken solely for political reasons”. Her release comes
FBI v Apple from the perspective of human rights law
In the wake of Federal Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym’s February 16 order to compel Apple to create code to unlock the work-provided iPhone of San Bernardino killer Syed Farook, both parties (see the U.S. Justice Department’s motion to compel and Apple’s Motion to