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Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye.
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Free expression under worldwide assault, UN human rights expert warns in new report

20 October 2016
Warning that the freedom of expression is under the widespread assault, a new United Nations human rights report has found that governments worldwide, wielding the tools of censorship, are “treating words as weapons.”
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Reports that Yahoo aided US e-mail surveillance draw concern of UN human rights expert

7 October 2016
The top United Nations expert of free expression said today that reports that Yahoo complied with United States intelligence demands by searching the e-mails of hundreds of millions of customers “raise serious human rights concerns.”
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Jailing teen blogger in Singapore sends wrong message on free expression–UN expert

4 October 2016
After a Singaporean teenage blogger was sentenced to jail for his social media posts, a United Nations human rights expert today warned that it is “exactly the wrong kind of message that any government should be sending to anybody, but especially to young people.”