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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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‘Silence is too often the only safe option left’ – new UN report on sources and whistleblowers

22 October 2015
Governments and international organizations are failing to ensure adequate protections to whistleblowers and sources of information, according to a new report by the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression.
Special Rapporteur on cultural rights, Farida Shaheed.
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UN rights experts call for release of Qatari poet jailed for writing and reciting poem

20 October 2015
United Nations human rights experts today urged the Government of Qatar to release Mohammed al-Ajami, a poet who is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for writing and reciting a poem at his home.
Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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New Kyrgyz law on civil society groups must protect free expression, association – UN rights office

26 May 2015
The United Nations rights office called today on the Government of Kyrgyzstan to ensure that the freedoms of expression and association are protected in line with international human rights standards as the country’s Parliament prepared to hear the first reading of draft law that could negatively affect the work of civil society organizations there.