Berhan Taye

Guinea imposed a deliberate internet shutdown during a crucial referendum, putting the results in question and endangering public health during the COVID-19 outbreak.

As physical borders close, access to the open, secure internet becomes critical to society’s health and cultural, economic, and political wellbeing .

Our new report highlights internet shutdown trends that emerged in 2019, explores the #KeepItOn coalition’s ongoing efforts to fight shutdowns, and examines some of the challenges we foresee for 2020.

Aucune tentative du gouvernement de couper ou d’entraver l’internet au cours des élections ne saurait être tolérée.

The people of Togo are preparing to go to the polls. Any attempts by the government to shut down or throttle the internet during the elections cannot be accepted.

Happy International Data Protection Day! To celebrate, we’re taking you on a data protection world tour. Buckle up — it’s a wild ride.

The Indian government is responding to citizen protests in major cities by deliberately cutting access to mobile networks, an inherently anti-democratic tactic that threatens human rights and puts people’s lives in danger. Sadly, this is part of an ongoing trend globally and across Asia, and the people it is hurting the most have the least capacity to defend their rights.

The method Iran used to carry out the shutdown diverges from a “typical” blanket shutdown and its comprehensive nature makes it harder to circumvent.

An injunction banning certain content on communications platforms threatens fundamental human rights in Hong Kong.